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Privacy and Security

Information technology lets people learn about one another on a scale previously unimaginable. Information in the wrong hands can be harmful. Scholars on this site consider problems of privacy, fraud, identity, and security posed by the digital age.

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TAP Academics

Jane Ginsburg
Columbia University
Intellectual Property, Privacy and Security, Competition Policy and Antitrust, Copyright and Trademark

Eric Goldman
Santa Clara University
Intellectual Property, Privacy and Security, Copyright and Trademark, Networks, the Internet, and Cloud Computing, Internet, Search and Advertising

David C. Gray
University of Maryland
Privacy and Security

Karen J. Greenberg
Fordham University
Privacy and Security, Networks, the Internet, and Cloud Computing

James Grimmelmann
Cornell University
Intellectual Property, Privacy and Security, Copyright and Trademark, Networks, the Internet, and Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing, Internet, Search and Advertising, Media and Content

Woodrow Hartzog
Northeastern University
Intellectual Property, Privacy and Security, Networks, the Internet, and Cloud Computing, Internet, Artificial Intelligence

Chris Hoofnagle
University of California, Berkeley
Privacy and Security, Networks, the Internet, and Cloud Computing, Internet

Margot Kaminski
University of Colorado
Intellectual Property, Privacy and Security, Internet, Artificial Intelligence

Ian Kerr
University of Ottawa
Privacy and Security, Networks, the Internet, and Cloud Computing, Internet, Artificial Intelligence

Bruce Kobayashi
George Mason University
Innovation and Economic Growth, Interoperability, Intellectual Property, Privacy and Security, Competition Policy and Antitrust

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TAP Blog

Brazil’s LGPD: Its Sudden Jolt to Life and Its Key Requirements

George Washington University privacy law professor Daniel Solove provides some information about the LGPD, Brazil’s new privacy law.

Daniel J. Solove

September 11, 2020

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Upcoming Events

9th Annual BCLT Privacy Law Forum

October 9, 2020, East Palo Alto, CA

Digital and Physical Company Towns in the Age of Public Capitalism

October 29, 2020,

TPRC48: Research Conference on Communications, Information and Internet Policy

February 19, 2021, Washington, DC

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Fact Sheets

Privacy and Consumers

There are a number of privacy issues related to how online companies collect, store, use and share personally identifiable information; and how consumers are informed about what is done with their information online.

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Quote

A Super-surveillance Society and Its Impact on Democracy

No country with too strong or too weak state power can generate economic growth. — Daron Acemoglu, Professor of Economics, MIT

Daron Acemoglu
The Japan Times
September 6, 2020

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Soft Law: New Tools for Governing Emerging Technologies

Traditionally, nations harmonized their own regulation of new technologies with the rules of other nations through negotiation of international treaties. "Soft law" tools such as private standards and codes of conduct are less resource-intensive than treaties.

By: Braden Allenby, Gary Marchant

February 15, 2017

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