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In a UVA Common Law podcast, privacy law expert Neil Richards, law professor at Washington University in St. Louis, joins University of Virginia law professor Danielle Citron to discuss how privacy regulation could ensure that information cannot be used to gain control and influence others.

Privacy law scholars Woodrow Hartzog, Boston University, and Neil Richards, Washington University in St. Louis, have been exploring the concept of data loyalty for a number of years. In an article they wrote for IAPP Perspectives, they examine several recently proposed bills to update privacy law in the United States.

George Washington University law professor Daniel Solove interviews Washington University law professor Neil Richards about his book, "Why Privacy Matters".

In their recent paper, “A Duty of Loyalty for Privacy Law,” Professors Neil Richards and Woodrow Hartzog propose imposing a duty of loyalty on companies that collect and process human information.

In an op-ed article written for The Washington Post, Professors Woodrow Hartzog and Neil Richards explain why the current online privacy ecosystem in the U.S. is failing; and, they encourage policymakers to “redefine itself as the country that protects the trust that people give to companies.”

Washington University law professor Neil Richards examines how we got to a place where secret government surveillance seems both omnipresent and unavoidable.

Amidst the Apple and FBI court conflict over accessing encrypted data, Professor Neil Richards asks, “What principles will guide the courts facing novel questions about surveillance in an era when our data is held by dozens of companies?”

Privacy law professor Neil Richards discusses his new book, Intellectual Privacy: Rethinking Civil Liberties in the Digital Age. Professor Richards’ recent work explores the complex relationships between free speech and privacy in cyberspace.

Professors Daniel Solove and Neil Richards explain how the recent case of Google v. Vidal-Hall in the UK shows that US tort ideas are influencing EU law.