Kaleigh Rogers reports: Nobody actually reads through the privacy policies of every website, which is why researchers recently used artificial intelligence to create a tool that reads them for you and flags anything you might not be psyched to agree to. Launched earlier this year as a part of the Usable Privacy Project, the tool…
Category: Misc
New Draft Article: “Cross-Enforcement of the Fourth Amendment”
Orin Kerr writes: I recently posted a draft of a new article, Cross-Enforcement of the Fourth Amendment, forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review. Here’s the opening: Imagine you are a state police officer in a state that has decriminalized marijuana possession. You pull over a car for speeding, and you smell marijuana coming from inside…
Article: Risk and Anxiety: A Theory of Data-Breach Harms
Abstract In lawsuits about data breaches, the issue of harm has confounded courts. Harm is central to whether plaintiffs have standing to sue in federal court and whether their legal claims are viable. Plaintiffs have argued that data breaches create a risk of future injury, such as identity theft, fraud, or damaged reputations, and that…
Is Artificial Intelligence the Ultimate Test for Privacy?
Eduardo Ustaran of Hogan Lovells writes: Nothing challenges the effectiveness of data protection law like technological innovation. You think you have cracked a technology neutral framework and then along comes the next evolutionary step in the chain to rock the boat. It happened with the cloud. It happened with social media, with mobile, with online…