Daniel J. Solove has posted a draft of a new article and welcomes feedback, Abstract: Heightened protection for sensitive data is becoming quite trendy in privacy laws around the world. Originating in European Union (EU) data protection law and included in the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), sensitive data singles out certain categories of…
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Article: Privately Policing Dark Patterns
On SSRN, this article by Gregory M. Dickinson: Abstract Lawmakers around the country are crafting new laws to target “dark patterns”—user interface designs that trick or coerce users into enabling cell phone location tracking, sharing browsing data, initiating automatic billing, or making whatever other choices their designers prefer. Dark patterns pose a serious problem. In…
Article: The Limitations of Privacy Rights
On SSRN, this article by Daniel J. Solove: Abstract Individual privacy rights are often at the heart of information privacy and data protection laws. The most comprehensive set of rights, from the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), includes the right to access, right to rectification (correction), right to erasure (deletion), right to restriction,…
IRS Wants to Buy Internet Mass Monitoring Tool
Joseph Cox reports: The IRS wants to purchase an internet monitoring tool from a company that has sold products to sections of the U.S. military and the FBI, according to public procurement records. The company, called Team Cymru, provides access to “netflow” data, which can show activity on the wider internet, such as which server communicated with another….