Privacy, Technology, and Protecting Democracy: A Conversation with Daniel Solove
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Join the Open Technology Institute (OTI) for an engaging conversation with Daniel J. Solove, author of the new book On Privacy and Technology and a forthcoming law review article on surveillance titled Privacy in Authoritarian Times.
In the book, Solove argues that the problem isn’t that the law is too slow to keep up with technology. Instead, a culture of tech exceptionalism and myths involving tech and privacy have led to the law treating tech differently and not holding the creators and users of tech accountable. In the article, Solove presents a set of prescriptions to resist authoritarianism and calls for stronger regulation of surveillance capitalism to address government surveillance.
Solove, the Bernard Professor of IP and Tech Law at GW Law School, will unpack how policy professionals from different fields should understand privacy and its relationship to power, society, and healthy democracies.
Moderated by Prem M. Trivedi, Policy Director with the Open Technology Institute at New America, the discussion will explore Solove’s views on how privacy law should be retooled to maximize its social impact. The conversation also will examine how people in various domains can exercise their own agency in advancing privacy in their work.