Paul Schwartz

A distilled guide, Privacy Law Fundamentals offers key knowledge for privacy practitioners and students of this field. It provides the essential elements of privacy law at your fingertips. It includes: analysis of leading cases, numerous charts and tables, summaries of key state privacy laws, an overview of FTC enforcement actions, and answers to frequently asked privacy questions.

This book surveys the field of information privacy law, with excerpts from the leading cases and scholarship. It covers privacy issues involving the media, health and genetic privacy, law enforcement, freedom of association, anonymity, identification, computers, records, cyberspace, home, school, workplace, and international privacy.

This book (with co-author Daniel Solove) is designed for use in cyberlaw, law and technology, privacy law, and information law courses and seminars. Among other things, it covers electronic surveillance, computer searches, USA-Patriot Act, privacy and access to public records, data mining, identity theft, consumer privacy, and financial privacy.

Personally identifiable information (PII) is one of the most central concepts in information privacy regulation. The scope of privacy laws typically turns on whether PII is involved. The basic assumption behind the applicable laws is that if PII is not involved, then there can be no privacy harm. At the same time, there is no uniform definition of PII in information privacy law. Moreover, computer science has shown that the very concept of PII can be highly malleable.

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Personally identifiable information (PII) is one of the most central concepts in information privacy regulation. The scope of privacy laws typically turns on whether PII is involved. The basic assumption behind the applicable laws is that if PII is not involved, then there can be no privacy harm. At the same time, there is no uniform definition of PII in information privacy law. Moreover, computer science has shown that the very concept of PII can be highly malleable.

Because PII defines the scope of so much privacy regulation, the concept of PII must be rethought. In this Article, we argue that PII cannot be abandoned; the concept is essential as a way to define regulatory boundaries. Instead, we propose a new conception of PII, one that will be far more effective than current approaches.
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Personally identifiable information (PII) is one of the most central concepts in information privacy regulation. The scope of privacy laws typically turns on whether PII is involved. The basic assumption behind the applicable laws is that if PII is not involved, then there can be no privacy harm. At the same time, there is no uniform definition of PII in information privacy law. Moreover, computer science has shown that the very concept of PII can be highly malleable.

Because PII defines… Show more

Personally identifiable information (PII) is one of the most central concepts in information privacy regulation. The scope of privacy laws typically turns on whether PII is involved. The basic assumption behind the applicable laws is that if PII is not involved, then there can be no privacy harm. At the same time, there is no uniform definition of PII in information privacy law. Moreover, computer science has shown that the very concept of PII can be highly malleable.

Because PII defines the scope of so much privacy regulation, the concept of PII must be rethought. In this Article, we argue that PII cannot be abandoned; the concept is essential as a way to define regulatory boundaries. Instead, we propose a new conception of PII, one that will be far more effective than current approaches.
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This paperback compilation includes the complete text of nearly forty statutes, regulations, and other primary materials. It includes: APEC Privacy Framework, Cable Communications Policy Act, California Breach Notification Statute , California’s SB1, Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, CAN-SPAM Act, Council of Europe Convention on Privacy, Drivers Privacy Protection Act, Electronics Communication Privacy Act, EU Data Protection Directive, and many more… Show more

This paperback compilation includes the complete text of nearly forty statutes, regulations, and other primary materials. It includes: APEC Privacy Framework, Cable Communications Policy Act, California Breach Notification Statute , California’s SB1, Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, CAN-SPAM Act, Council of Europe Convention on Privacy, Drivers Privacy Protection Act, Electronics Communication Privacy Act, EU Data Protection Directive, and many more statutes. Show less

Based on Information Privacy (3d ed. 2009), this paperback contains key cases and materials focusing on privacy issues related to the media. Topics covered include the privacy torts, free speech, First Amendment, defamation, online gossip, the prying of paparazzi, and social network websites. This book is designed for use in courses and seminars about journalism, entertainment law, media law, Torts II (or advanced torts), cyberlaw, Internet law, First Amendment, free speech, law and technology,… Show more

Based on Information Privacy (3d ed. 2009), this paperback contains key cases and materials focusing on privacy issues related to the media. Topics covered include the privacy torts, free speech, First Amendment, defamation, online gossip, the prying of paparazzi, and social network websites. This book is designed for use in courses and seminars about journalism, entertainment law, media law, Torts II (or advanced torts), cyberlaw, Internet law, First Amendment, free speech, law and technology, privacy law, and information law. Show less