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When Can Public Schools Discipline Students for Off-Campus Speech?

Daniel Solove     @daniel-solove.bsky.social
Founder of TeachPrivacy
June 15, 2011

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I’ve been spending a lot of time lately focusing on privacy issues at schools.  I find these issues fascinating, and I have been working on them in the trenches, as I created a company last year to provide tools and resources to schools to help them better address privacy problems and to develop a comprehensive privacy program (or enhance their existing privacy program).  The company is called TeachPrivacy.  If you’re a school official (K-12, higher ed), a teacher/professor, or a concerned parent, please contact me if you’re interested in my project.

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Education Privacy in Peril

Daniel Solove     @daniel-solove.bsky.social
Founder of TeachPrivacy
May 26, 2011

Education Privacy

I have been spending a lot of time examining education privacy lately, and there are some very troubling things going on in this field.   At a general level, schools lack much sophistication in how they handle privacy issues.  Other industry sectors that handle sensitive personal data have Chief Privacy Officers and a comprehensive privacy program.  Most schools lack anyone to handle privacy or any kind of privacy program.  I recently started a new company called TeachPrivacy to address these issues and help schools better develop a privacy program.

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The Clementi Suicide, Privacy, and How We Are Failing Generation Google

Daniel Solove     @daniel-solove.bsky.social
Founder of TeachPrivacy
May 25, 2011

The tragic suicide of Tyler Clementi has been raising awareness of the profound issue of privacy and young people. Two students, Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei, have been criminally charged with invasion of privacy for secretly recording Clementi’s sexual activities in his dorm room and then disseminating the video on the Internet.

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Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security

Daniel Solove     @daniel-solove.bsky.social
Founder of TeachPrivacy
May 3, 2011

Nothing to Hide

I’m pleased to announce the publication of my new book, NOTHING TO HIDE: THE FALSE TRADEOFF BETWEEN PRIVACY AND SECURITY (Yale University Press, May 2011).  Here’s the book jacket description:
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New Privacy Law Reference Book: Privacy Law Fundamentals

Daniel Solove     @daniel-solove.bsky.social
Founder of TeachPrivacy
March 21, 2011

Privacy Law Fundamentals

Professor Paul Schwartz (Berkeley School of Law) and I recently published a new book, PRIVACY LAW FUNDAMENTALS.  This book 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.
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NASA v. Nelson

Daniel Solove     @daniel-solove.bsky.social
Founder of TeachPrivacy
January 20, 2011

NASA v Nelson

The U.S. Supreme Court has decided NASA v. Nelson, reversing the 9th Circuit 8-0.  My thoughts about the case are here and here [links no longer available], and as I predicted, the Court rejected the 9th Circuit holding that the government employment background check questionnaires violated the constitutional right to information privacy.  Fortunately, the Court kept its opinion narrow and didn’t use it as an opportunity to wipe out the constitutional right to information privacy, a right that the Court mentioned just a few times but that has taken on more of a life in the circuit courts.
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More Fun with the Airline Screening Playset: Body Imaging X-Ray Edition!

Daniel Solove     @daniel-solove.bsky.social
Founder of TeachPrivacy
November 19, 2010

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I’ve been following the recent controversy over the TSA’s body imaging X-ray machines, otherwise known as the “backscatter” or “exhibit-yourself-in-the-nude” devices.  It made me reminisce about an old post I wrote about the Playmobil airline screening playset.

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I had not used the playset for a while.  Five long years have elapsed since my post, and I had outgrown this toy and moved on to more advanced ones.  But this recent controversy made me regress. . . .

 

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