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Privacy's Law Of Design, Ari Ezra Waldman Jan 2019

Privacy's Law Of Design, Ari Ezra Waldman

Articles & Chapters

Privacy by design is about making privacy part of the conception and development of new data collection tools. But how should we interpret “privacy by design” as a legal mandate? As it transitions from an academic buzzword into binding law, privacy by design will, for the first time, impose real responsibilities on real people to do specific things at specific times. And yet, there remains significant disagreement about what privacy by design actually means in practice: we have yet to define its who, what, when, why, and how. Different approaches to privacy by design have tried to answer those questions …


Commodifying Consumer Data In The Era Of The Internet Of Things, Stacy-Ann Elvy Jan 2018

Commodifying Consumer Data In The Era Of The Internet Of Things, Stacy-Ann Elvy

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Internet of Things (“IOT”) products generate a wealth of data about consumers that was never before widely and easily accessible to companies. Examples include biometric and health-related data, such as fingerprint patterns, heart rates and calories burned. This Article explores the connection between the types of data generated by the IOT and the financial frameworks of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code and the Bankruptcy Code. It critiques these regimes, which enable the commodification of consumer data, as well as laws aimed at protecting consumer data, such as the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act, various state biometric …


Paying For Privacy And The Personal Data Economy, Stacy-Ann Elvy Jan 2017

Paying For Privacy And The Personal Data Economy, Stacy-Ann Elvy

Articles & Chapters

Growing demands for privacy and increases in the quantity and variety of consumer data have engendered various business offerings to allow companies, and in some instances consumers, to capitalize on these developments. One such example is the emerging “personal data economy” (PDE) in which companies, such as Datacoup, purchase data directly from individuals. At the opposite end of the spectrum, the “pay-for-privacy” (PFP) model requires consumers to pay an additional fee to prevent their data from being collected and mined for advertising purposes. This Article conducts a simultaneous in-depth exploration of the impact of burgeoning PDE and PFP models. It …


Fostering Creativity In Virtual Worlds: Easing The Restrictiveness Of Copyright For User-Created Content, Todd David Marcus Jan 2007

Fostering Creativity In Virtual Worlds: Easing The Restrictiveness Of Copyright For User-Created Content, Todd David Marcus

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.


Financial Privacy, Gregory T. Nojeim Jan 2000

Financial Privacy, Gregory T. Nojeim

NYLS Journal of Human Rights

No abstract provided.