Professor Woodrow Hartzog (Northeastern Law) has written a great essay focusing on my work. The piece is
What is Privacy? That’s the Wrong Question
88 U. Chicago L. Rev. 1677 (2021)
In this webinar (1 hour), Daniel Solove, Justin Antonipillai (CEO and Founder of WireWheel), Mingli Shi (Qualcomm), and Edward R. McNicholas (Ropes & Gray) discuss China’s Personal Information Privacy Law (PIPL). The discussion covers how China’s PIPL compares to the EU’s GDPR, keys to compliance, and potential future developments on privacy and security law in China.
I’m delighted to be interviewing Professor Ari Waldman (Northeastern Law), who has published Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power (Cambridge University Press 2021), a provocative new book about privacy law and privacy programs at corporations.
In his book, Ari delivers an eviscerating critique of privacy law and of the approach to protect privacy through internal privacy programs at organizations. Although I diverge from Ari in that I believe that that many privacy law provisions and privacy programs are generally a good thing, his critique makes many salient points that must be reckoned with. Privacy law and compliance have significant shortcomings that should be addressed.
Halloween is this week, so I thought I’d bring this older cartoon out of the archive. I updated it a bit. Enjoy!
This cartoon is about implantable devices and privacy. Increasingly devices require subscriptions, and there is tremendous lock in, as the devices can only work with a particular company’s services. Implantable devices up the ante – a person could be locked in for life. The law must address lock in with more than data portability. When there are compelling reasons, such as devices that cannot readily be replaced, the law should require companies to allow other companies to supply necessary services to keep devices functioning.
Professor Danielle Citron and I have thoroughly revised our article, Privacy Harms, forthcoming 102 B.U. Law Review __ (2022). You can download the latest draft for free on SSRN.
Some of the things we updated:
There are other changes, too, but the ones above are the most relevant ones. We’re still editing the piece, so we welcome additional feedback. The piece will be published in 2022.
You can read the latest draft here.
Abstract:
I am pleased to announce that I created a new whiteboard and training course for China’s Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL).
The PIPL is China’s first comprehensive privacy law, and it has several notable similarities to the GDPR. There are also some key differences. In an earlier post, I provide a comparison between the PIPL and GDPR.
Information about the PIPL training course is here. The course is 20 minutes. There is also a short version of the course (5.5 mins) available here.
The whiteboard on China’s PIPL summarizes the law in 1 page. It is available for free for personal use. For other uses, please contact us.
How does China’s new Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) compare to the European Union’s GDPR? In this post, I provide a quick PIPL vs. GDPR comparison. In comparing the PIPL with the GDPR, I will note a few key similarities and differences — my comparison is not comprehensive.
A few notable similarities between the PIPL and GDPR include:
A few notable differences between the PIPL and GDPR include:
This cartoon is about profiling. A profile consists of a particular set of characteristics and behaviors that are deemed as suspicious by law enforcement. Profiles can be created by people or generated by algorithms that identify suspicious things from data of known criminals or terrorists.
Back in 1993, Professor Oscar Gandy, Jr. wrote one of the most insightful and prescient books about privacy: The Panoptic Sort: A Political Economy of Personal Information.
Oscar Gandy is an emeritus professor with the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, having retired from active teaching in 2006. He has continued to publish in the areas of the political economy of communication and information, focusing most recently on the development and use of algorithmic technology.