Originally Posted on Substack Originally published as Daniel J. Solove The AI Inference Problem in Privacy Law, Wolters Kluwer Cybersecurity Policy Report (Oct. 19, 2026) You can download a PDF of the piece here: Abstract AI provides an unprecedented ability to determine patterns in aggregated data which can produce inferences about people. There are two […]
Originally Posted on Substack As scholars increasingly use AI in scholarly writing, journals and book publishers are starting to require disclosures of AI use. But these disclosures are sometimes unclear, difficult to comply with, and vague. How AI use affects article selection decisions remains uncertain. I recently had terrific conversation about these issues with Andrew […]
Originally Posted on Substack I’ve curated a list of recent works on privacy, AI, and tech that will be worth your time checking out. I didn’t have time to sum up the papers, so I’m pasting the abstracts in full.
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 […]
SCHOLARSHIP Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security I posted the full text of my book, NOTHING TO HIDE: THE FALSE TRADEOFF BETWEEN PRIVACY AND SECURITY (Yale University Press 2011) on SSRN for free. Privacy Harms Privacy Harms (with Danielle Keats Citron) forthcoming 102 B.U. Law Review __ (2022). You can download […]
by Daniel J. Solove This post was co-authored with Professor Woodrow Hartzog. This past Tuesday the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a complaint against AT&T for allegedly throttling the Internet of its customers even though they paid for unlimited data plans. This complaint was surprising for many, who thought the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was […]
by Daniel J. Solove In my previous post on privacy/security harms, I explained how the law is struggling to deal with privacy and data security harms. In this post, I will explore why. The Collective Harm Problem One of the challenges with data harms is that they are often created by the aggregation of many […]
by Daniel J. Solove I was fortunate to pick up a copy of The Privacy Engineer’s Manifesto, a new book by Michelle Finneran Dennedy, Jonathan Fox, and Thomas Finneran. I’ve read a lot of practical “how to” stuff about privacy before that’s vague and not very specific, but this book is so refreshingly detailed, has […]