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T HE C ASE FOR O NLINE O BSCURITY Woodrow Hartzog * and Fred eric Stutzman ** ABSTRACT: On the Internet, obscure information has a minimal risk of being discovered or understood by unintended recipients. Empirical research demonstrates that I nternet users rely on obscurity perhaps more than anything else to protect their privacy . […]

       72 U. Chi. L. Rev. 919         University of Chicago Law Review Summer 2005     Article     *919 A SOCIAL NETWORKS THEORY OF PRIVACY     Lior Jacob Strahilevitz  [FNd1]       Copyright ©  2005 University of Chicago; Lior Jacob  Strahilevitz         What  facts  are  public  and  what  facts  are  private?  I t  is  the  fundamental,  first-principles  question in privacy law,  and a necessary  element  in  the two most important privacy torts, public  disclosure of private facts and intrusion upon secl usion. This paper  argues  that insights from the  literature  on  social  networks  and  information  disse […]

Do Data Breach Disclosure Laws Reduce Identity Theft? Sasha Romanosky, Rahul Telang, Alessandro Acquisti Heinz School of Public Policy and Management Carnegie Mellon University {sromanos, rtelang, acquisti} @andrew.cmu.edu ABSTRACT In the United States, identity theft resulted in co rporate and consumer losses of $56 billion dollars in 2005, with up to 30 percent of k […]

1  FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION IN A  NETWORKED WORLD: FIRST AMENDMENT  REGULATION OF RELATIONAL  SURVEILLANCE   Katherine J. Strandburg *  Abstract: Recent  controversies  about  the  National  Security  Ag ency’s  war- rantless wiretapping of international calls have  ov ershadowed  equally  dis- turbing allegations that the government has acquire d access to a huge da- tabase  of  domestic  call  traffic  data,  revealing  inf ormation  about  times,  dates,  and  numbers  called.  Although  communication  c ontent  tradition- ally  has  been  the  primar y  focus  of  concern  about  […]

Privacy’s Other Path: Recovering the Law of Confidentiality NEIL M. R ICHARDS *&D ANIEL J. S OLOVE ** The familiar legend of privacy law holds that Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis “invented” the right to privacy in 1890, and that William Prosser aided its develop- ment by recognizing four privacy torts in 1960. In this […]

SOLO 10.DOC 9/3/02 8:49 AM DIGITAL DOSSIERS AND THE DISSIPATION OF FOURTH AMENDMENT PRIVACY DANIEL J. S OLOVE * I. INTRODUCTION …………………………………………………………………… 1084 II. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GATHERING AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR …………………………………………………………… 1089 A. T HIRD PARTY RECORDS AND THE GOVERNMENT ……………………….. 1089 B. G OVERNMENT -PRIVATE SECTOR INFORMATION FLOWS ………………. 1095 C. T HE […]

ON PRIVACY: LIBERTY IN THE DIGITAL REVOL UTION Christina M. Gagnier * Cite as 11 J. HIGH TECH . L. 229 (2011) In the dorm room of some college freshman Political Science major at Any College U.S.A is a copy of John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty shoved under the bed. 1 Mill’s On Liberty , […]

Penn State Law Review Winter, 2010 Articles *809 PEOPLE CAN BE SO FAKE: A NEW DIMENSION TO PRIVACY AND TECHNOLOGY SCHOLARSHIP M. Ryan Calo [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2010 The Dickensen School of Law of The Pennsylvania State University; M. Ryan Calo This article updates the traditional discussion of privacy and technology, focused since the days […]

1 PRIVACY INVASIVE GEO -MASHUPS: PRIVACY 2.0 AND THE LIMITS OF FIRST GENERATION INFORMATI ON PRIVACY LAWS Mark Burdon † ABSTRACT Online technological advances are pioneering the wider distribution of geospatial information for general mapping purposes. The use of popular web – based applications, such as Google Maps, is ensuring that mapping based applications are […]

Communication Law Review47 Privacy: Ethical and Legal Considerations 1 Raphael Cohen-Almagor, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel 2 Abstract Privacy is commonly understood as insulation from observability, a value asserted by individuals against the demands of a curious and intrusive society. It is intimately associated with our most profound values, our understanding of what it means […]