Lior Strahilevitz

Collective Privacy

This article analyzes the way courts have handled group privacy issues and proposes shifting to a consent-based system.

Contracting Over Privacy: Introduction

As smart products and services that use “big data” proliferate, privacy advocates express concerns that privacy regulation is too weak. Many consumers agree to give up privacy protections when they use sites or make purchases online. Should regulators restrict consumers from waiving privacy protection?

Omri Ben-Shahar

Privacy versus Antidiscrimination

The author argues that the privacy protections are actually harmful to antidiscrimination laws in some contexts.

Reputation Nation: Law in an Era of Ubiquitous Personal Information

This paper asks if information policy can reduce discrimination against people due to characteristics like ethnicity.

Shining a Light on Dark Patterns

Some user interfaces include “dark patterns” that exploit cognitive bias to manipulate users. Two experiments show that subtle dark patterns are more dangerous, because consumers are less likely to reject them.

Jamie Luguri

Taking Data Out of Context to Hyper-Personalize Ads: Crowdworkers’ Privacy Perceptions and Decisions to Disclose Private Information

This study shows that consumers will continue to answer intrusive online survey questions correctly, even after being disturbed by the inclusion of their personal information in an online ad.

Julia Hanson et al

Wealth Without Markets?

This article critiques Yochai Benkler’s book on how new communications technology can foster social production.