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BCLT Privacy Lecture on Murky Consent in Privacy Law

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I’ll be speaking at Berkeley Law’s 16th Annual BCLT Privacy Lecture on 9/22 about Murky Consent: An Approach to the Fictions of Consent in Privacy Law with commenters, Ari Ezra Waldman (Professor, UC Irvine School of Law), Rebecca Wexler (Professor,  UC Berkeley School of Law), and Ella Corren (JSD, UC Berkeley School of Law).

ABA Event on Privacy and Consent

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On Thursday, June 22 at 12pm EST, I’ll be speaking on a webinar hosted by the ABA on Privacy and the Ongoing Viability of Consent. I’ll be discussing the background and effectiveness of the consent model with Jessica Rich and Aryeh Friedman. You can find more information about the event and how to register here. […]

Does European Privacy Law Need a Fix?

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 I recently had a terrific discussion with Prof. Nikolaus Forgó from the University of Vienna. We talked about my two recent paper — on informed consent and on sensitive data.  You can watch the interview on YouTube above. Both articles are available for free download below.  

Murky Consent: An Approach to the Fictions of Consent in Privacy Law

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I posted a draft of my new article, Murky Consent: An Approach to the Fictions of Consent in Privacy Law. It is just a draft, and I welcome feedback. You can download it for free here: Here’s the abstract: Consent plays a profound role in nearly all privacy laws. As Professor Heidi Hurd aptly said, consent […]