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...

A good deal of recent attention has focused on the potential for "self-regulation" on the Internet and more generally. This article proposes a general framework for deciding among markets, self-regulation and government enforcement in the protection of personal information. Self-regulation is...

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...

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...

This essay is in honor of the retirement of Peter Hustinx, who served as the first European Data Protection Supervisor, from 2004-2014. The essay suggests that key themes in Hustinx’ career show a surprising and deep similarity between the legal cultures of the United States and the European...

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 article presents and analyzes significant ways that both the European Union and the United States are stricter in certain respects than the other, for the privacy of government requests for information. The ways that both sides are stricter in significant respects has not been clearly...

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...