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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George Washington University privacy law professor Daniel Solove provides some information about the LGPD, Brazil’s new privacy law.
September 11, 2020
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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
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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No country with too strong or too weak state power can generate economic growth. — Daron Acemoglu, Professor of Economics, MIT
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Featured Article
The United States Congress must decide whether to enact a national privacy law like Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). But GDPR-style rules fail to protect against many harms of data overuse.
August 23, 2019
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