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Privacy and Big Data: Making Ends Meet Jules Polonetsky and Omer Tene * How should privacy risks be weighed against Big Data rewards? The recent controversy over leaked documents revealing the massive scope of data collection, analysis and use by the NSA and possibly other national security organizations has hurled to the forefront of public […]

Big Data in Small Hands W o o d r o w H a r t z o g * a n d E v a n S e l i n g e r ** “Big data” can be defined as a problem -solving philosophy that leverages massive data sets and algorithmic analysis to […]

CONSUMER SUBJECT REVIEW BOARD S Ryan Calo  The adequ acy of consumer privacy law is a live topic of debate. The majority position is that United States privacy law is a “patchwork,” that the dominant model of notice and choice has broken down, 1 and that decades of self -regulation have left the fox […]

1 Forgetting about consent. Why the focus should be on “suitable safeguards” in data protection law Gabriela Zanfir 1 Working Paper May 2013 University of Craiova Faculty of Law and Administrative Sciences 1 PhD candidate, Faculty of Law and Administrative Sciences, University of Craiova, Romania, e -mail: [email protected]. This work was supported by the strategic […]

  THE  PURSUIT OF  PRIVACY    IN A  W ORLD  W HERE  INFORMATION    C ONTROL  IS FAILING     ADAM  THIERER *  INTRODUCTION ……………………………………………………..410 I. NORMATIVE  CONSIDERATIONS :  T HE  CHALLENGE OF  DEFINING  PRIVACY …………414 A. Privacy and “the Pursuit of   Happiness” ……………………………………………..414 B. On the Problem of “Creepiness”   as the Standard of Privacy Harm …………….417 C. Increasing Tensions Between   Privacy Rights and Online Free Speech …..421 II. ENFORCEMENT  COMPLICATIONS :   C ONTROLLING  INFORMATION  FLOWS ……………..424 A. Media and Technological Convergence […]

2013 ] 1055 A FRAMEWORK FOR BENE FIT -COST ANALYSIS IN DIGITAL PRIVACY D EBATES Adam Thierer * INTRODUCTION Policy debates surrounding online child safety and digital privacy share much in common . Both are complicated by thorny definitional di s- putes and highly subjective valuations of “harm.” Both issues can be su b- ject […]

Why the Right to Data Portability Likely Reduces Consumer Welfare: Antitrust and Privacy Critique Peter Swire & Yianni Lagos Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper Series No. 204 May 31, 2013 This working paper series is co-sponsored by the Center for Interdisciplinary Law and Policy Studies at the Moritz College of Law This paper […]

Vanderbilt University Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Working Paper Number 12 -29 Law & Economics Working Paper Number 12 -22 Making the Most of United States v. Jones in a Surveillance Society: A Statutory Implementation of Mosaic Theory Ch ristopher Slobogin Vanderbilt University Law School This paper can be downloaded without charge from […]

(1623) ARTICLE INFORMATION PRIVACY IN THE CLOUD PAUL M. SCHWARTZ † INTRODUCTION …………………………………………………………………. 1624 I. T HE USE OF THE CLOUD ……………………………………………….. 1626 A. International Processing of Personal Data……………………………….. 1628 B. Networked Data Processes …………………………………………………. 1630 C. Modular Units and Outsourced Services ………………………………… 1632 II. T HE M ISMATCH WITH INFORMATION PRIVACY LAW ………….. 1634 […]

  1966 THE EU-U.S. PRIVACY COLLISION: A TURN TO INSTITUTIONS AND PROCEDURES Pa u l M . S c h w a r t z ∗ I.  INTRODUCTION   Internet scholarship in the United States generally concentrates on  how decisions made in this country about copyright law, network neu- trality, and other policy areas shape cyberspace. 1  In one important as- pect of the evolving Internet, however, a comparative focus is indis- pensable.  Legal forces outside the United States have significantly  shaped the governance of information privacy, a highly important as- pect of cyberspace, and one involving central issues of civil liberties.   The EU has played a major role in international decisions involving  information privacy, a role that has been bolstered by the authority of  EU member states to block data transfers to third party nations, in- cluding the United States. 2  The European Commission’s release in late January 2012 of its  proposed “General Data Protection Regulation” (the Proposed Regula- tion) provides a perfect juncture to assess the ongoing EU-U.S. privacy  collision. 3  An intense debate is now occurring about critical areas of  information policy, including the rules for lawfulness of personal pro- cessing, the “right to be forgotten,” and the conditions for data flows  between the EU and the United States.  This Article begins by tracing the rise of the current EU-U.S. pri- vacy status quo.  The European Commission’s 1995 Data Protection  Directive (the Directive) staked out a number of bold positions, includ- ing a limit on international data transfers to countries that lacked “ad- equate” legal protections for personal information. 4  The impact of the  […]