Privacy
Consumer Protection Laws Need an Update To Combat Behavioral Manipulation and Safeguard Privacy in the Digital Era
In new research, Monika Leszczyńska explores how consumers’ ideas of morality should inform government agencies and courts as they seek to update and enforce consumer protection laws. The focus is on adapting these laws to address modern business practices in the digital age. These practices involve behavioral manipulation of consumers, resulting in non-monetary damages, such as the invasion of privacy.
The Privacy Fallacy
The following is an excerpt from Ignacio Cofone’s new book, “The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy,” out now.
Data is Abundant But is it Accessible to Researchers?
Despite the wide availability of data, ensuring independent access to data sources has never been more crucial. How can researchers engage in data sharing...
Why Competition Alone Won’t Bring About a More Inclusive Digital Economy
The current reforms being debated in the US and Europe to tackle the challenges posed by tech giants tend to see more competition as...
Is there a “California Effect” in Data Privacy Law? Why the EU is Not the World’s Privacy Cop
It is common lore in data privacy law and other fields that stringent regulatory standards (such as the ones introduced in the EU’s GDPR)...
Why Privacy Experts Need a Place at the Antitrust Table
Antitrust enforcers have tended to stay narrowly “in their lane,” failing to engage with how data is collected and used by digital giants and...
Big Tech’s Fight Over Privacy: Could Facebook Win an Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple?
Do the new iOS 14 privacy features violate antitrust laws? If Facebook brings an antitrust suit against Apple, as it is reportedly considering, there...
“An Offer We Can’t Refuse”: How We Gave Away Our Data and Made Big Tech What It Is Today
WhatsApp’s new terms of service should come as no surprise. For years, Big Tech has been offering its users these “take it or leave...
The Useful Distraction of Section 230
How the red-herring of a politicized Section 230 and “conservative censorship” distracts from a bipartisan national privacy act.
Remember Cambridge Analytica? A lot has happened...
Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Contact Tracing, Debt, and the Oil Crash
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.
Contact tracing. If someone had told...
