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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

Katherine Strandburg
New York University
Intellectual Property, Privacy and Security, Networks, the Internet, and Cloud Computing, Internet, Artificial Intelligence

Peter Swire
Georgia Tech
Innovation and Economic Growth, Privacy and Security

Omer Tene
The Haim Striks School of Law, The College of Management Academic Studies
Privacy and Security

Joseph Turow
University of Pennsylvania
Privacy and Security, Networks, the Internet, and Cloud Computing, Internet, Search and Advertising, Media and Content

Marshall Van Alstyne
Boston University
Interoperability, Intellectual Property, Privacy and Security, Competition Policy and Antitrust, Open Source

Ian Walden
Queen Mary University of London
Privacy and Security, Networks, the Internet, and Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing, Wireless

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TAP Blog

Taking a Broader Look at Privacy Remedies

In their new paper, “Breaking the Privacy Gridlock: A Broader Look at Remedies,” privacy experts Chris Hoofnagle, James Dempsey, Ira Rubinstein, and Katherine Strandburg examine regulatory structures outside the field of information privacy in order to identify enforcement and remedy structures that may be useful in developing federal consumer privacy legislation.

TAP Staff Blogger

June 15, 2021

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Upcoming Events

PrivacyCon 2021

July 27, 2021,

10th Annual BCLT Privacy Law Forum

October 8, 2021,

14th Annual BCLT Privacy Lecture: Policing Families

October 28, 2021,

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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

Should Alexa Read Our Moods?

“Using the human body for discriminating among people is something that we should not do.” — Joseph Turow, Professor of Media Systems & Industries, University of Pennsylvania

Joseph Turow
The New York Times
May 19, 2021

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The Right to Quantitative Privacy

Law enforcement agencies subject citizens to surveillance by systems that aggregate large amounts of data from sources such as telephone records or drones. Such indiscriminate, broad surveillance violates Fourth Amendment privacy rights.

By: Danielle Citron, David C. Gray

January 1, 2013

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