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Highly regarded privacy law professors Daniel Solove, George Washington University, Anita Allen, University of Pennsylvania, and Ari Waldman, Northeastern University joined University of Virginia law professor Danielle Citron for a discussion of her recent book, The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity and Love in the Digital Age.

Articles by Professor Anita Allen of the University of Pennsylvania School of Law and Professor Paul Schwartz of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law have been honored with the FPF’s Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award.

In a new article, George Washington Law professor and privacy expert Daniel Solove contends that privacy law requires rethinking. “Data Is What Data Does…” explains that privacy law “protections should be based on the use of personal data and proportionate to the harm and risk involved with those uses.”

Contextual integrity (CI) was first proposed by Helen Nissenbaum in 2004 as a new framework for reasoning about privacy. The 4th Symposium on Applications of Contextual Integrity showcased novel research and fostered generative interaction using Contextual Integrity to reason about privacy.

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.

A recap of some of the books written by TAP scholars in 2022. These books examine technology policy issues ranging from the prediction power of artificial intelligence, privacy and surveillance, cybersecurity, and quantum computing.

George Washington University law professor Daniel Solove provides his list of notable books on privacy and security from 2022.

Microsoft Partner Researcher danah boyd shared insights from her multi-year ethnographic study of the U.S. census. She discussed how the U.S. Census Bureau’s decision to embrace differential privacy as part of its system to protect statistical confidentiality upended what people imagined the work of data to be.

Dr. Mando Rachovitsa, University of Groningen, delves into the court case that challenged the Dutch government’s use of an algorithmic decision-making system aimed at combatting fraud in its social welfare programs. She explains why the judgment has been lauded as a “landmark ruling“ for addressing the human rights implications of the digital welfare state .

In his keynote address for NBER’s conference on “Megafirms and the Post-COVID Economy”, Professor Jean Tirole, Toulouse School of Economics, explained how traditional regulation and antitrust rules are ineffective in addressing the unique issues arising from the growth of digital platforms.