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2025 Highlights: Privacy and AI Scholarship

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)On Privacy and Technology

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

On Privacy and Technology - Selected Quotations

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Notable Privacy, AI, and Security Books 2025

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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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The Trump Effect on Tech Law – Video

The Trump Effect on Tech Law

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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Privacy and AI Deregulation Will Be Bad for Innovation

Originally posted on Substack

Unfortunately, the EU might be falling for the delusion that rolling back tech regulation will result in AI suddenly sprouting from its soil. It’s magical thinking that taking a few whacks at the GDPR and AI Act will somehow conjure up AI. I see it as more akin to pulling out your teeth with pliers in the hope the tooth fairy will slip AI under your pillow. From a recent NYT article:

In a significant shift, policymakers in Brussels are moving to scale back and simplify landmark rules for artificial intelligence and data privacy. Driven by growing concern that overregulation is stifling economic growth, officials and business leaders across the 27-nation bloc are questioning whether Europe’s digital rulebook has gone too far and left companies lagging the United States and China. The Trump administration has also criticized Europe’s regulations.

Quick rule of thumb: If the Trump Administration wants it, then glance over to the rubble of the White House and the smoking ashes of the U.S. government and maybe think a little bit more before embracing it.

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