The Daily Freeman reports: Edward Snowden, the former CIA employee accused of espionage for leaking classified information on government surveillance programs, will be among featured speakers at a two-day conference, “Why Privacy Matters,” at Bard College next month. Snowden, who currently resides in Russia, where he had been granted a three-year asylum, will be speaking…
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New Report Illustrates How Overheated Rhetoric Creates a ‘Privacy Panic Cycle’ for New Technologies, Warns Policymakers Not to Overreact
From a press release from The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF): The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) today released a comprehensive analysis of how privacy advocates trigger waves of public fear about new technologies in a recurring “privacy panic cycle.” ITIF urged policymakers to recognize these panics and not allow hypothetical, speculative, or…
Article: Taking Trust Seriously in Privacy Law – Richards & Hartzog
A new article by privacy law scholars Neil Richards and Woodrow Hartzog. Abstract: Trust is beautiful. The willingness to accept vulnerability to the actions of others is the essential ingredient for friendship, commerce, transportation, and virtually every other activity that involves other people. It allows us to build things, and it allows us to grow….
The Long-Term Promise of Privacy Federalism, Part 2
Eric Goldman writes: Yesterday, guest blogger Bilyana Petkova summarized some of her arguments in favor of “privacy federalism,” i.e., temporary state-level regulation of privacy matters, a topic she addresses more fully in a forthcoming article on SSRN. In helping her prepare her post, I organized my thoughts into some pros and cons of state legislatures as privacy regulation…