Joel R. Reidenberg, N. Cameron Russell, Alexander J. Callen, Sophia Qasir, and Thomas B. Norton, all of Fordham, have written Privacy Harms and the Effectiveness of the Notice and Choice Framework. Here is the abstract: In the last fifteen years, the Federal Trade Commission and the White House have promoted notice and choice as the […]
Category Archives: Privacy
by Jeff Sovern You know those bulletin boards you used to see at some doctors' offices with snapshots of babies they had either treated or delivered? Well, last week, the Times ran an article, Baby Pictures at the Doctor’s? Cute, Sure, but Illegal about how display of the photos where patients and others could see them […]
Woodrow Hartzog of Samford's Cumberland School of Law and Stanford's Center for Internet and Society and Daniel J. Solove of George Washington have written The Scope and Potential of FTC Data Protection, 83 George Washington Law Review (2015, Forthcoming). Here is the abstract: For more than fifteen years, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has regulated privacy […]
Chris Jay Hoofnagle and Jennifer M. Urban, both of Berkeley, have written Alan Westin's Privacy Homo Economicus, 49 Wake Forest Law Review 261 (2014). Here's the abstract: Homo economicus reliably makes an appearance in regulatory debates concerning information privacy. Under the still-dominant U.S. “notice and choice” approach to consumer information privacy, the rational consumer is […]
by Jeff Sovern Here, in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Chris Jay Hoofnagle of Berkeley has written How the Fair Credit Reporting Act Regulates Big Data for the Future of Privacy Forum Workshop on Big Data and Privacy: Making Ends Meet, 2013. Here is the abstract: This short essay, prepared for the Future of Privacy Forum's Big Data and Privacy: Making Ends Meet event in […]
Daniel J. Solove of George Washington and Woodrow Hartzog of Samford's Cumberland Law School and Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society have written The FTC and Privacy and Security Duties for the Cloud, 13 BNA Privacy & Security Law Report 577 (2014). Here's the abstract: Increasingly, companies, hospitals, schools, and other organizations are […]
The Law & Economics Center's Henry G. Manne Program in Law & Economics Studies will present its Public Policy Conference on the Future of Privacy and Data Security Regulation at George Mason University School of Law, Wednesday, May 14, 2014 from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm. PANEL 1: Section 5 and the FTC's Proper Role […]
by Jeff Sovern In a column last week, The Wild West of Privacy, Times columnist Joe Nocera called for, among other things, regulating data brokers. In response, I wrote a letter to the Times, which they ran here. Here's what I said: Joe Nocera argues that data brokers should be obliged to tell consumers what […]
Here. A look at the bigger picture, and a lot of sage advice.