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The Glass House Effect: Why Big Data is the New Oil, and What to Do About It. Professor Dennis Hirsch 1 “Data is the new o il,” Clive Humbly announced in 2006. 2 Just recently, IBM CEO Virginia Rometty updated the phrase , explaining that “big d ata ” is the new oil .3 The […]

[…] PRIVACY  196 (2008).  No. 2] The Pursuit of Privacy 415  teristics of privacy has led to failure,” he says. 19 “Privacy has  really ceased to be helpful as a term to guide policy in the  United States,” argues Professor Woodrow Hartzog, “because  privacy means so many different things to so many different  people.” 20 For these reasons, some scholars, most notably Pro‐ fessor Helen Nissenbaum, have argued that privacy must be  thought of in a highly context‐specific fashion. 21   Of course, privacy has always been a highly subjective philoso‐ phical concept. 22 It is also a constantly morphing notion that  evolves as societal attitudes adjust to new cultural and techno‐ logical realities. 23 For these reasons, America may never be able to  achieve a coherent fixed definition of the term or determine when  it constitutes a formal right outside of some narrow contexts.   Even if agreement over the scope of privacy rights proves  elusive, however, everyone would likely agree that citizens  have the  right to pursue privacy. In this sense, we might think  about the pursuit of privacy the same way we think about the  pursuit of happiness. Recall the  memorable line from Amer‐ ica’s Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be  self‐evident, that all men are created equal, that  they are en‐ dowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that  among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” 24  19. Id. at 8.   20. Cord Jefferson, Spies Like Us: We’re All Big Brother Now, G IZMODO , Sept. 27,  2012, http://gizmodo.com/5944980/spies‐like‐us‐were‐all‐big‐brother‐now.  21. See H ELEN  NISSENBAUM , PRIVACY IN  CONTEXT : TECHNOLOGY , POLICY , AND  THE  INTEGRITY OF  SOCIAL  LIFE  (2010); see also Cate & Litan, supra note 5, at 61 (“A  meaningful evaluation of the constitutionality of privacy laws requires that those  laws be examined in context—not just the context of other issues and values, but  […]

[…] remembered seeing the icon, and fewer than 12% correctly recalled the tagline they had been shown. The “Why did I get this ad?” 1 tagline was most memorable. It was also most effec- tive for communicating notice, followed by “Interest based ads” and “Learn about your ad choices.” However, no tagline was ef- fective […]

[…] Bamberger, Regulation as Delegation: Private Firms, Decisionmaking, and Accountibility in the Admi nistrative State, 56 D UKE L.J. 377, 443 (2006) (citing Chip Heath et al., Cognitive Repairs: How Organizational Practices Can Compensate for Individual Shortcomings , 20 R ES. ORG. BEHAV . 1, 13 (1998) ( “Often, organizations ensure that individuals weigh information […]

[…] of vehicles. City planners and departments of transportation should be able to use aggregate driving informat ion to optimize traffic flows and identify roads in need of repair. According to one survey, the growth of embedded in -car telematics will ensure that connected cars make up over 5% of connected devices by 2025, compared […]

[…] risks of generating biased conduct as well. I believe, however, that the problems mentioned are not inherent features of data mining, and they certainly are not beyond repair. If the data mining process is sufficiently t ransparent, it can effectively overcome these challenges. Adding interpretability and even causation to the data mining process could […]

[…] Mem., supra note 23, at 9 , n.16 (“It is well established that the protest of supervisory actions is protected conduct under Section 7. “) (citing Datwyler Rubber & Plastics, Inc., 350 N.L.R.B. 669 (2007); Groves Truck & Trailer, 281 N.L.R.B. 1194 (1986)). The Office of the General Counsel had concluded that Souza ’s […]

[…] abound. Politicians declare their devotion to children’s issues. Singers and actors assure us that “children are our future.” Books enlist villages to raise them. But when the rubber hits the road we routinely fail children in so many ways, including privacy. Today, Joel Reidenberg’s Center on Law and Information Policy released a report attesting […]