Via Public Citizen: 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…
Category: Misc
Going bye-bye?
In an OpEd in the New York Times, Thomas Friedman writes that four words are going bye-bye. One of those words is “privacy.” On Twitter, a lot of people think Friedman is over. Here’s some of what I saw in my tweet stream: In @nytopinion, @tomfriedman argues foolishly that privacy is dead; he should read…
Monroe County judge David Audlin steps down, laments ‘invasion of my privacy’ after hookup site reveal
Cammy Clark reports: Judge David Audlin was serving as Monroe County’s chief circuit judge in late April when he announced via an open letter to friends and colleagues that he was retiring with four years left in his second six-year term. The well-respected Audlin, 56, who was elected in 2006 and again in 2012, did…
Upcoming on PBS: United States of Secrets
From PBS: How did the government come to spy on millions of Americans? In United States of Secrets, a two-part series airing May 13 and 20, FRONTLINE goes behind the headlines to reveal the dramatic inside story of the U.S. government’s massive and controversial secret surveillance program—and the lengths they went to trying to keep it hidden…