| Obligations, Property, Legal Theory | Monday, 10 March 2025 - 17:09 |
ABSTRACT
Privacy law emphasizes control over ‘your’ data, but requiring consent for each data use is unprincipled, not to mention utterly impractical in the AI era. American lawmakers should reject the property model and use a framework that creates defined zones of privacy and clear safe harbors, irrespective of consent.
Jane R Bambauer, How to Get the Property Out of Privacy Law (2023-2024) 133 Yale Law Journal 1087 (22 April 2024).
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