Is Data Speech? Jane Bambauer University of Arizona – James E. Rogers College of Law March 11, 2013 Stanford Law Review, Forthcoming Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 13-19 Abstract: Privacy laws rely on the unexamined assumption that the collection of data is not speech. That assumption is incorrect. Privacy scholars, recognizing an imminent clash…
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We Need a Better, Simpler Narrative of US Privacy Laws
Peter Fleischer writes: Ask yourself why a European privacy regulator can propagate the preposterous view publicly that the US has “no effective privacy laws.” And lots of people seem to believe that. And why does it matter? On the global stage, Europe is convincing many countries around the world to implement privacy laws that follow…
Two Boston tech leaders fund ACLU privacy project
Michael B. Farrell reports: Two luminaries of the Boston tech community have contributed $1 million to launch an initiative at the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts meant to safeguard privacy in an era when government agencies have greater access than ever before to personal data. The initial donation from Paul Sagan, former chief executive…
Article: Toward a Positive Theory of Privacy Law
Lior Strahilevitz has an article in Harvard Law Review, Vol. 113, No. 1, 2013: Abstract: Privacy law creates winners and losers. The distributive implications of privacy rules are often very significant, but they are also subtle. Policy and academic debates over privacy rules tend to de-emphasize their distributive dimensions, and one result is an impoverished…