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Making Privacy Injuries Concrete, Peter Ormerod
Making Privacy Injuries Concrete, Peter Ormerod
Washington and Lee Law Review
In recent years, the U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly said that the doctrine of Article III standing deprives the federal courts of jurisdiction over some lawsuits involving intangible injuries. The lower federal courts are carrying out the Supreme Court’s instructions, and privacy injuries have borne the brunt of the Court’s directive. This Article identifies two incoherencies in the Court’s recent intangible injury decisions and builds on the work of privacy scholars to fashion a solution.
The first incoherency is a line-drawing problem: the Court has never explained why some intangible injuries create an Article III injury in fact while others …
Bytes Bite: Why Corporate Data Breaches Should Give Standing To Affected Individuals, Caden Hayes
Bytes Bite: Why Corporate Data Breaches Should Give Standing To Affected Individuals, Caden Hayes
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
High-profile data hacks are not uncommon. In fact, according to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, there have been at least 7,961 data breaches, exposing over 10,000,000,000 accounts in total, since 2005. These shocking numbers are not particularly surprising when taking into account the value of information stolen. For example, cell phone numbers, as exposed in a Yahoo! hack, are worth $10 a piece on the black market, meaning the hackers stood to make $30,000,000,000 from that one hack. That dollar amount does not even consider copies the hackers could make and later resell. Yet while these hackers make astronomical payoffs, the …
Accounting For The Slow Growth Of American Privacy Law, Rodney A. Smolla
Accounting For The Slow Growth Of American Privacy Law, Rodney A. Smolla
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