My new cartoon for the holidays about replacing Santa with AI.
Cartoon: Santa AI
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2025 Highlights: Privacy and AI Scholarship
Here’s a roundup of my privacy and AI scholarship in 2025.
ON PRIVACY AND TECHNOLOGY
Oxford University Press (2025)
From the book jacket:
Succinct and eloquent, On Privacy and Technology is an essential primer on how to face the threats to privacy in today’s age of digital technologies and AI.
With the rapid rise of new digital technologies and artificial intelligence, is privacy dead? Can anything be done to save us from a dystopian world without privacy?
In this short and accessible book, internationally renowned privacy expert Daniel J. Solove draws from a range of fields, from law to philosophy to the humanities, to illustrate the profound changes technology is wreaking upon our privacy, why they matter, and what can be done about them. Solove provides incisive examinations of key concepts in the digital sphere, including control, manipulation, harm, automation, reputation, consent, prediction, inference, and many others.
Compelling and passionate, On Privacy and Technology teems with powerful insights that will transform the way you think about privacy and technology.
Quotes from On Privacy and Technology
Click here to see a few key quotations from the book.
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Notable Privacy, AI, and Security Books 2025
Here are some notable books on Privacy, AI. and Security from 2025.
For a more comprehensive list of 500+ books from the 1960s to the present, you can download my free guide, which I recently updated: Notable Privacy Books: A Journey Through History
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Cartoon: The Future of Web Surfing
My new cartoon on modern web surfing. These days, web traffic is increasingly bots. And the content being written is increasingly by bots. Soon, it’ll all just be bots surfing to crawl stuff from bots.
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The Trump Effect on Tech Law – Video
For a long time, the EU has exerted strong influence in privacy, AI, and tech regulation – the Brussels effect. But deregulatory policies from the Trump Administration in the US have started to gain footing in the EU and elsewhere. Is there a Trump Effect? If so, how strong is it? Daniel Solove interviews Professor Anu Bradford (Columbia Law).
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Cartoon: Your Privacy Is Very Important to Us
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Cartoon: Regulators vs. Venture Capitalists on AI
My latest cartoon about how tech companies promote AI to regulators and to venture capitalists. It has always struck me as outrageous how tech companies so eagerly keep mentioning how their AI will eliminate jobs or potentially kill all humans. That’s not a normal way to ingratiate your technology to the world. I believe they do it to excite the venture capitalists and spark investment.
Unfortunately, touting AI as helping modestly with mundane tasks doesn’t inspire big money. Companies hype AI as powerful rather than as helpful. They think AI that takes over your work is better than AI that makes your work more efficient.
Professor Daniel J. Solove is a law professor at George Washington University Law School. Through his company, TeachPrivacy, he has created the largest library of computer-based privacy and data security training, with more than 180 courses.
Order Solove’s New Book
ON PRIVACY AND TECHNOLOGY
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VIDEO: Is Online Scraping Legal?
Daniel Solove and Woodrow Hartzog discuss their article, The Great Scrape: The Clash Between Privacy and Scraping, 113 Cal. L. Rev. 1521 (2025). They argue that scraping, which is essential for AI, is inconsistent with nearly all core privacy principles in privacy laws. Is there a way to reconcile scraping and privacy?
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Cartoon – Online Scraping
My new cartoon about online scraping.
If you want to learn more about my thoughts on scraping, please download (free) my article with Professor Woodrow Hartzog, The Great Scrape: The Clash Between AI Scraping and Privacy, 113 California Law Review 1521 (2025).
Also, please tune in to my upcoming online discussion with Professor Hartzog: Is Online Scraping Legal? (Tues, Nov 11, 2 PM ET).
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The Great Scrape: The Clash Between Scraping and Privacy – Final Published Version
I’m very excited to share with you the final published version of my article with Professor Woodrow Hartzog, The Great Scrape: The Clash Between AI Scraping and Privacy, 113 California Law Review 1521 (2025). You can download the article for free on SSRN.
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