Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2014
ISSN
2374-9040
Publisher
University of Colorado School of Law
Language
en-US
Abstract
Two of the greatest modem challenges to protecting personal information are determining how to protect information that is already known by many and how to create an adequate remedy for privacy harms that are opaque, remote, or cumulative. Both of these challenges are front and center for those who seek to protect socially shared information. Social media and wearable communication technologies like Google Glass present vexing questions about whether information that is known by many can ever be "private," what the privacy harm might be from this information's misuse, and how to remedy such harms in balance with competing values such as free speech, transparency, and security. Some law and policy makers have responded to the challenge of protecting privacy in an era of massive self-disclosure with relatively modest, piecemeal protections.
Recommended Citation
Woodrow Hartzog,
The Value of Modest Privacy Protections in a Hyper Social World
,
in
12
Colorado Technology Law Journal
332
(2014).
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