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Assessing the Federal Trade Commission’s Privacy Assessments

October 15th, 2019|Comments Off on Assessing the Federal Trade Commission’s Privacy Assessments

Why read this article? This short article points out the big differences between an "audit," and an "assessment," the latter of which is the tool used by the Federal Trade Commission to oversee companies that [...]

Comments on the CCPA

March 8th, 2019|Comments Off on Comments on the CCPA

I filed the following comments today on the CCPA to the CA AG. March 8, 2019 VIA Email California Department of Justice ATTN: Privacy Regulations Coordinator 300 S. Spring St. Los Angeles, CA 90013 Re: [...]

Amsterdam Privacy Conference 2018

November 30th, 2018|Comments Off on Amsterdam Privacy Conference 2018

Opening keynote talk on The Tethered Economy, 87(4) Geo. Wash. L. Rev. ___ (2019)(with Aaron Perzanowski and Aniket Kesari), Amsterdam Privacy Conference, Oct. 2018.

Syllabi

April 5th, 2018|Comments Off on Syllabi

I'm getting a lot of requests for my syllabi. Here are links to my most recent courses. Please note that we changed our LMS in 2014 and so some of my older course [...]

Embrace legitimate cost–benefit analysis, recognize that much of it is not legitimate

February 28th, 2018|Comments Off on Embrace legitimate cost–benefit analysis, recognize that much of it is not legitimate

From Federal Trade Commission Privacy Law and Policy, Chapter 12: The FTC is surrounded by critics who urge that Agency actions must be more “rigorous” or based in the “sound economic policy” of cost–benefit analysis. [...]

Bait-and-switch advertising, bait-and-switch privacy

February 19th, 2018|Comments Off on Bait-and-switch advertising, bait-and-switch privacy

From Federal Trade Commission Privacy Law and Policy, Chapter 12: Professor Ross Petty highlighted that some of Posner’s objections reflected unstated assumptions and that recognizing these help us see the deficits of the Posner critique.27 [...]