Prepared for the North Carolina Law Review symposium on police body-worn Cameras (“BWC”s), this Article shows that BWCs can be conceptualized as an example of the Internet of Things (“IoT”). By combining the previously separate literatures on BWCs and IoT, this Article shows how insights...

For the past eight years, Vietnam has steadily expanded and strengthened its legislative protections of privacy in relation to e-commerce, and in consumer transactions generally. Government Decree 52 of May 16, 2013 on e-commerce (Decree No. 52/2013/ND-CP), which took effect on July 1, 2013,...

Proposals for the reform or ‘modernisation’ of Council of Europe Data Protection Convention 108 have now been forwarded from the Convention’s Consultative Committee for consideration by the Council of Ministers. In most respects, the proposed changes greatly strengthen the Convention, and...

This article is part of a Wisconsin Law Review symposium in honor of the work of Neil Komesar, and particularly his book “Imperfect Alternatives: Choosing Institutions in Law, Economics, and Public Policy.” I used this as the main text in 2003 for one of the first law school courses on...

TRUSTe Inc. is the largest global provider of privacy certifications - ‘privacy seals’ - to businesses, with the ostensible purpose of assuring consumers that they can have confidence in the privacy practices of those businesses. Its operations in two of the most important (and...

This article examines the tension between social networks as enablers of political mobilization (sharing information is good) and as threats to privacy (sharing information is bad). A central theme is that social networks are platforms to create associations. Linguistically, “networks” and...

The goal of this article is to provide a framework for assessing issues of data portability and other required transfers of data. Greater portability and other required transfers of data can have pro-competitive effects – if more companies have access to commercially valuable data, then there...

This article examines the interaction between data privacy, which was a highly salient political issue before the events of September 11, and cyber-security and homeland security, which became much more salient after those events. The article illustrates the shift in salience by examining the...

This paper is the first systematic examination of the effects of data localization laws on cybersecurity. This paper focuses on the effects of “hard” data localization, where transfer of data is prohibited to other countries. Other “softer” versions of data localization also exist, such...