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Many online service providers assume that users act in good faith in posting content online. As the online population grows and bad actors multiply, this assumption is hard to sustain.

Intimate privacy concerns the extent to which others may access information about our health, sexuality, gender, and close relationships. The law does not adequately protect intimate privacy.

Some assume that Business-to-Business (B2B) platforms are similar to Business-to-Consumer (B2C) platforms. However, the needs of B2B consumers are more complex. B2B platforms create value differently than B2C platforms.

Artificial intelligence-based systems (AI) present risks that might be hard to predict or quantity. Policymakers in Europe and the United States have developed proposals to regulate AI risks.

Some worry that tech firms could use big data to harm consumers and competition. Forcing firms to share data would reduce incentives to innovate and compete. Concerns about privacy are better addressed by privacy law.

Data localization policies prohibit the transfer of data to foreign countries. Data localization affects the ability of organizations to prevent and respond to cyberattacks, increasing cybersecurity risks.

A duty of loyalty focusing on the relationships between data collectors and data subjects would reinvigorate American privacy law. The law should include a general duty not to act against users’ interests.

Apple’s privacy nutrition labels require app developers to complete a form to make data collection processes more transparent to users. Developers support more transparency, but found the labelling process challenging.

Data breaches are preventable, but data security law has failed to reduce data breaches. Policymakers should reform data security law to take a more holistic approach, reducing systemic risk.

Federal privacy law has failed to address privacy problems that disproportionately affect African Americans, such as oversurveillance, discrimination, and fraud. New state and federal privacy laws could better serve their interests.