If you couldn’t make it to my webinar to discuss privacy and innovation, you can watch the replay here. David Keating (Alston & Bird), Ashley Massengale (Porsche) and Nameir Abbas (Okta), and I discussed practical approaches and tips for assessments of new technologies under privacy regulatory standards.
If you couldn’t make my webinar to discuss cross-border data transfers, you can watch the replay here. Justin Antonipillai of Wirewheel, Josh Harris of BBB National Programs and I discussed the new framework between the US and the EU for cross-border data transfers as well as the CBPRs. We also discussed steps that companies should take today and what to expect in the future.
Watch this video of a discussion that I had with Bruce Schneier and Woodrow Hartzog about data breach law issues.
I was invited by Shepherd to list my recommendations for the 5 best books about privacy. Shepherd is a site that posts lists of best books recommended by experts about various topics. It has excellent lists.
I was delighted to have the chance to share my admiration for superb books by Woodrow Hartzog, Danielle Citron, Neil Richards, Anita Allen, and Ari Waldman. There are many other excellent books about privacy, but I was asked to list just 5, so I had to exclude many other very worthy works.
At my list of best privacy books at Shepherd, I describe how I became interested in the privacy field, and I provide short explanations for why I chose each book.
Professor Woodrow Hartzog and I selected some key quotes from our new book, BREACHED! WHY DATA SECURITY LAW FAILS AND HOW TO IMPROVE IT (Oxford University Press 2022).
“Too much of the current law of data security places the breach at the center of everything. Turning data security law into the “law of breaches” has the effect of over-emphasizing the conduct of the breached entities while ignoring the other actors and factors that contributed to the breach.” (p. 11)
“Data security law has an unhealthy obsession with data breaches. This obsession has, ironically, been the primary reason why the law has failed to stop the deluge of data breaches. The more obsessed with breaches the law has become, the more the law has failed to deal with them.” (p. 39)
“Breaches are already very costly and painful, so when regulators come along and add a little more to the pain, it often is not a game changer. This is especially true because the penalties are often far smaller than the overall costs of the breach.” (p. 55)
“Current data security rules fail to address risk effectively. In many circumstances, the law penalizes breaches with little regard to considerations of risk and balance. Other times, the law levies no penalty against organizations even though their actions created enormous unwarranted risks.” (p. 12)
Here is the recording of my debate with Prof. Jane Bambauer. We discussed state privacy laws and the pros and cons of the Uniform Law Commissions model privacy law, the Uniform Personal Data Protection Act (UPDPA).
A Critique of the Uniform Law Commission’s Uniform Personal Data Protection Act
Here is a recording of my interview with Jodi & Justin Daniels of Red Clover Advisors with their series, She Said Privacy/He Said Security,
In this interview I discuss how to educate your team on data privacy and security. I also reveal how to lead engaging training sessions on privacy laws, the different types of privacy laws that employees should be aware of, and tips and tricks on personal security and privacy.
Free download of Chapter 1 of PRIVACY LAW FUNDAMENTALS (6th ed. 2022)
The chapter covers the types of privacy law, provides a list of US federal privacy laws, and includes an historical timeline of major developments in privacy law.
I have an article with Professor Woodrow Hartzog in Slate created from an excerpt from our new book, Breached! Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve it
We Still Haven’t Learned the Major Lesson of the 2013 Target Hack
By Woodrow Hartzog & Daniel Solove
Slate (April 13, 2022)
You can read Chapter 1 of Breached! for free here.
Woody and I will be holding a webinar to discuss the book on Wednesday, April 27, 2022 at 2 PM ET. More info and registration here.
I am pleased to announce that Professor Paul Schwartz and I have just published a new 6th edition of our book, PRIVACY LAW FUNDAMENTALS. Now in a new 6th edition for 2022, PRIVACY LAW FUNDAMENTALS is a distilled guide to the essential elements of U.S. data privacy law. In an easily-digestible format, the book covers core concepts, key laws, and leading cases.
The book summarizes the essential provisions of all of the major privacy statutes and regulations, including COPPA, ECPA, FCRA, FERPA, FISA, FTC Act, GLBA, HIPAA, TCPA, Privacy Act, VPPA, and more.
The book includes summaries of foreign laws such as the EU’s GDPR, China’s PIPL, Canada’s PIPEDA, Brazil’s LGPD, and more.
In addition, PRIVACY LAW FUNDAMENTALS summarizes key state privacy laws and provides an overview of FTC and HHS enforcement actions. We provide numerous charts and tables summarizing the privacy statutes (i.e. statutes with private rights of action, preemption, and statutory damages, among other things).
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