The Dangers of Surveillance Neil M. Richards Washington University in Saint Louis – School of Law March 25, 2013 Harvard Law Review, 2013 Abstract: From the Fourth Amendment to George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, our law and literature are full of warnings about state scrutiny of our lives. These warnings are commonplace, but they are rarely…
Month: March 2013
Does privacy protect “the right to fail”? — and, the vexing problem of privacy harms.
Babak Siavoshy writes: The most vexing failure of privacy scholarship, in my opinion, is that “privacy advocates” have failed to articulate in simple terms (to the public or any other audience) the value of privacy and the harm from undermining it. I’m not suggesting I can solve this problem, but I have some thoughts about…
An American Quilt of Privacy Laws, Incomplete
Natasha Singer discusses a recent blog post by Peter Fleischer, mentioned previously on this blog, We Need a Better, Simpler Narrative of US Privacy Laws: If the American side now appears to be losing the public relations battle, as Mr. Fleischer suggested, it may be because Europe has forged ahead with its project to modernize data…
Letting Down Our Guard With Web Privacy
Somini Sengupta has a great piece on Alessandro Acquisti’s research on the behavioral economics of privacy in the New York Times. If you’re not familiar with Alessandro’s research, this is a great opportunity to get an overview of his major findings and its significance as we consider policy and regulations.