A few weeks ago, Carrie Goldberg, a online victims’ rights lawyer, visited my classroom. Students were attentive as she recounted her clients’ cases. Nude pictures of a victim disclosed to her work colleagues by a former boyfriend, child abuse on the site Omegle, several youth who died after buying suicide kits suggested to them on Amazon Marketplace: these were clear situations where data and privacy interferences caused extremely significant losses that courts could hardly turn a blind eye to. Many – most – of Goldberg’s cases are fought on tortious grounds. Most of them form the tip of a much larger iceberg that Ignacio Cofone, in his book, calls ‘privacy harm’ … (more)
[Elettra Bietti, Balkinization, 10 December 2024]
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