Professor Daniel Solove calls our attention to this new collection of essays on consumer privacy. Evan Seligner, Jules Polonetsky, and Omer Tene have just published a terrific edited volume of essays called The Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Privacy. This is a truly impressive collection of writings by a wide array [Read More…]
Nicholas Confessore reports: An auditing firm responsible for monitoring Facebook for federal regulators told them last year that the company had sufficient privacy protections in place, even after the social media giant lost control of a huge trove of user data that was improperly obtained by the political consulting firm Cambridge [Read More…]
Chris Hoofnagle writes: Are our institutions up to the challenge of protecting users from information-age problems? This is the high-level question emerging from the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica debate. While on one hand Facebook and similarly-situated companies will pay some regulatory price, our public institutions are also in the crosshairs. In the [Read More…]
I’m not posting a link to this essay because I necessarily agree with it all (I don’t), but it certainly provides food for hopefully productive thought. Mason Marks, M.D., J.D., writes: Following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, it was reported that Facebook planned to partner with medical organizations to obtain health [Read More…]