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On January 20, 1993, Michael Walsh, the former Chairman and CEO of Tenneco revealed to the public that he had brain cancer. This type of disclosure of health issues are arguably serious enough to affect Wall Street. Other company officials have previously made similar disclosures such as Hugh...

This Article examines the scope of Sorrell v. IMS Health, its potential impact on legislative efforts to enact comprehensive consumer privacy legislation, and its implications for targeted Internet advertising. Part I provides a general overview of ad-targeting technology, emphasizing the...

This paper considers privacy invasion resulting from map services, such as Street View, on the Internet. Reciprocal privacy invasion can develop into a Prisoners' Dilemma. A portal site remedies such a dilemma by supplying personal information. However, under excessive supply, it worsens agents'...

Informational privacy is the ability to govern when others may collect your information and how they may use it. Norms can, and do, provide such governance, as Helen Nissenbaum's seminal work shows. The relevant norms are informational norms, social norms that govern the collection, use, and...

Website privacy policies often contain ambiguous language that undermines the purpose and value of privacy notices for site users. This paper compares the impact of different regulatory models on the ambiguity of privacy policies in multiple online sectors. First, the paper develops a theory of...

This article aims to present a critical view on the use of personal data in the current scenario of hyper-connectivity, bringing to the fore, as an alternative, the possibility of self-managing data, based on a concrete project. We will first present a panorama of privacy in the twenty-first...

This article discusses ways in which the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and post-GATS free trade agreements may limit the EU's ability to regulate privacy and personal data protection as fundamental rights. After discussing this issue in two dimensions – the vertical...

As businesses and other entities have sought to collect more personal data on individuals, the public has pushed back, and lawmakers throughout the United States and elsewhere have responded by passing data protection laws. Recent data protection laws passed by the European Union and by several...

This paper evaluates the quality of privacy policies of five popular online services in India -- Google, Whatsapp, Uber, Flipkart and Paytm -- from the perspective of access and readability. We ask -- do the policies have specific, unambiguous and clear provisions that lend themselves to easy...