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W HY COLLECTION M ATTERS SURVEILLANCE AS A DE FACTO PRIVACY HARM Justin Brookman and G.S. Hans * Consumer privacy remains one of the most pressing issues in technology policy. The interactions between individuals and service providers generate a great deal of data, much of it personally identifiable and sensitive. Individual users are transacting more […]

In Search of the Holy Grail: Achieving Global Privacy Rules Through Sector-Based Codes of Conduct Dennis D. Hirsch Geraldine W. Howell Professor of Law Capital University Law School 303 E. Broad Street Columbus, OH 43215 [email protected] (614) 558-0997 (c) (614) 236-6685 (o) The movement of personal data across national borders is fundamental to the Internet […]

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 […]