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Webinar – New Insights on Privacy Training

If you couldn’t make it to my recent webinar on privacy training, you can watch the replay here. I had a great discussion with Leila Golchehreh of Relyance AI on building a successful privacy program.

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Webinar – Fight for Privacy in a Post-Dobbs World

This webinar focused on themes from Danielle Citron’s new book, The Fight for Privacy: online harassment and hate, Section 230, and how privacy invasions disproportionately are targeted at women. We discussed the implications of Dobbs, where the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the right to abortion. As Elizabeth Joh points out in a recent article, the world post-Dobbs is very different from the world pre-Roe. We are living in a surveillance society, and the government has unprecedented powers to monitor people’s intimate lives. You can watch it here.

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Citron - Fight for PrivacySpeakers:

– Daniel Solove, GW Law
– Danielle Citron, Virginia Law
– Mary Anne Franks, Miami Law
– Jolynn Dellinger, Duke Law
– Elizabeth Joh, UC Davis Law
– Allyson Haynes Stuart, Charleston Law

Recommended Reading

DANIELLE CITRON, THE FIGHT FOR PRIVACY
Danielle Keats Citron & Mary Anne Franks, The Internet as Speech Machine and Other Myths Confounding Section 230 Reform
MARY ANNE FRANKS, THE CULT OF THE CONSTITUTION
Elizabeth E. Joh, Dobbs Online: Digital Rights as Abortion Rights
Jolynn Dellinger & Stephanie Pell, The Impotence of the Fourth Amendment in a Post-Roe World
Allyson Haynes Stuart, Privacy in Discovery After Dobbs

 

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2022 Highlights: Scholarship and Writings

2022 Scholarship and writings

Here’s a roundup of my scholarship and writings for 2022.

SCHOLARSHIP

BOOKS

 BREACHED! WHY DATA SECURITY LAW FAILS AND HOW TO IMPROVE IT
(Oxford U. Press 2022) (with Woodrow Harzog)

Breached Book

Free chapter: Unifying Privacy and Data Security

PRIVACY LAW FUNDAMENTALS
(IAPP 6th ed. 2022) (with Paul Schwartz)

Privacy Law Fundamentals

Free chapter: An Overview of Privacy Law

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Notable Privacy and Security Books 2022

Notable Privacy Books 2022

Here are some notable books on privacy and security from 2022. This year, I celebrate the 15th anniversary from when I began these posts. To see a more comprehensive list of nonfiction works about privacy and security for all years, Professor Paul Schwartz and I maintain a resource page on Nonfiction Privacy + Security Books.
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Slaying the US News Law School Rankings Dragon

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The battle against the US News Law School Rankings has finally begun. After decades of groaning and grumbling about how bad the rankings are, many top law schools have said they are withdrawing from the rankings, including many out of the top 10. I applaud this move, but I fear that law schools might break out the champagne too early. The battle might be won, but the war might ultimately be lost unless law schools do more than just withdraw.

Law schools aren’t really dropping out of the rankings; they are just pledging to refuse to submit certain data that US News wants. US News issued a statement declaring that it will continue ranking whether law schools cooperate or not. The dragon hasn’t been slain; it’s just not going to get some of the food it wants.

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Cybersecurity and Data Security: What Every Lawyer Should Know

I was recently on a terrific panel called Cybersecurity and Data Security: What Every Lawyer Should Know held by Penn State Dickinson Law.  The program focused on the latest developments in cybersecurity and data privacy. The panel was moderated by Professor Daryl Lim, H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law at Penn St. Dickinson Law. Speakers included:

Daniel Solove, Professor, George Washington University Law School
Michael Bramnick, Senior Vice-President-Administration, Chief Compliance Officer & Chief of Staff, NRG
Charisse Castagnoli, General Counsel and Manager, Instapay Flexible LLC
Trent Jaeger, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State University
Kriti Lane Scott, Privacy and Civil Liberties Officer, CIA
Jack Stryker, Associate, Mullen Coughlin

You can watch the session for free at the embedded video below.

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Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve It

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I recently gave a talk on Faculti about ideas in my recent book, BREACHED! WHY DATA SECURITY LAW FAILS AND HOW TO IMPROVE IT (Oxford University Press 2022), about how major security breaches could be prevented through new approaches to data security law.  The Faculti platform provides a library of 8,000 video and audio insights from leaders in the academic and research community.  You can check it out here. or below:

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Cartoon: Privacy Law Frankenstein

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Here’s my new Halloween cartoon. It captures the many different privacy laws that organizations must follow. I’m curious to know the various combinations of privacy laws that various organizations must deal with.

Please take my super short survey below.  Thanks!  
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