The details of your personal life, such as grocery purchases and pizza topping preferences, are collected every day ― online and by club and discount cards from the gym, department store and supermarket. Though this data seems innocent enough, when it’s put together it can tell a whole lot about your health, finances and behavior….
Category: Misc
Reasonableness meets requirements: Regulating security and privacy in software
Paul N. Otto has a Note in the October issue of Duke Law Review, “Reasonableness meets requirements: Regulating security and privacy in software.” Here’s the Abstract: Software security and privacy issues regularly grab headlines amid fears of identity theft, data breaches, and threats to security. Policymakers have responded with a variety of approaches to combat…
Article: From Privacy To Liberty: The Fourth Amendment After Lawrence
Thomas P. Crocker has an article (pdf) in the current issue of UCLA Law Review. Here’s the abstract: This Article explores a conflict between the protections afforded interpersonal relations in Lawrence v. Texas and the vulnerability experienced under the Fourth Amendment by individuals who share their lives with others. Under the Supreme Court’s third-party doctrine,…
Article: Preemption and Privacy
Paul M. Schwartz has an article (pdf) in Yale Law Review that provides much food for thought. Here’s the abstract: A broad coalition, including companies formerly opposed to the enactment of privacy statutes, has now formed behind the idea of a national information privacy law. Among the benefits that proponents attribute to such a law…