Daniel J. Solove

@DanielSolove book moves forward like a train. The start is slow, the wheels straining to build up speed. Privacy, as Solove conceives it, is an immense concept, encompassing freedom, self-determination, relationships and power. The ideas in this book gather pace into a powerful testimony for action. Solove’s introductions and definitions makes this book accessible to all. The novice will be acquainted with the basics of privacy law before dipping into thornier issues further on, such as the futility of privacy self-management. By contrast, people with developed opinions will agree or argue with Solove, but in all instances remain curious about where his ideas will lead. With a kind of careful, incrementalist language, Solove takes readers from answering the basics of ‘What is privacy?’ and ‘What is Technology?’ to explicit calls for individual/consumer-centred regulation. Some big takeaways for this reader were: — the onus for privacy protection currently rests unreasonably with the individual. — the idea of regulation stifling innovation is a myth. Book review of ON PRIVACY AND TECHNOLOGY in The Law Society Gazette

Book review of ON PRIVACY AND TECHNOLOGY in The Law Society Gazette lawgazette.co.uk/reviews/privac… “The ideas in this book gather pace into a powerful testimony for action.”

Three TV Commercials Show What’s Wrong with Big Tech, Privacy, and AI open.substack.com/pub/danielsolo…

ICE claims its agents can enter our homes using their own paperwork, without a real judge’s signature. I explain how the most important word in this debate is also the most misleading one: “warrant.”  My latest for @aier + @thedailyeconomy thedailyeconomy.org/article/ices-w…

Electronic surveillance law is not taught enough in criminal procedure classes, but understanding it is essential. Recently, a recording of an interrogation of Luigi Mangione was botched because interrogators didn't realize PA had an all-party consent law jurist.org/news/2025/12/u…

Kafka’s The Trial captures privacy today youtube.com/shorts/9n45BCN…

Privacy as #Contract? In this Article, the authors argue that contract law is unsuitable for governing consumer privacy. Authors: Woodrow Hartzog, Daniel J. Solove Read More: spkl.io/6012AS7nw #Law

Can tech companies be trusted to self-regulate? Short answer: Hell no. youtube.com/shorts/KKYLVXB…

On Privacy and Technology has received a #MaincrestMedia #BookAward! Check it out here: winners.maincrestmedia.com/product/on-pri… #writingcommunity #writerslift #readerscommunity #books @DanielSolove

“To adequately regulate government surveillance, it is essential to also regulate surveillance capitalism.” From my article, Privacy in Authoritarian Times papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

👁‍🗨Not Dead Yet | S1E3 — Professor Daniel J. Solove As privacy dwindles and surveillance capitalism thrives, we find ourselves face-to-face with a threat poised to dwarf all else. In episode 3 of Not Dead Yet, @rkbaggs speaks with @DanielSolove, one of the world's most renowned thinkers on privacy, as well as one of the most cited legal scholars in history. Timestamps: 00:00 – Intro 01:15 – Why Privacy? 03:08 – How is privacy different today from 2000? 05:28 – Is the biggest threat to privacy AI? 07:05 – If we don’t act, what will the future look like? 08:55 – Why is data such a big threat? 18:44 – Why are privacy laws softening around AI? 26:42 – The myth of the privacy paradox 33:26 – The dangers of LLMs and AI chatbots 40:48 – Do you think we’re becoming easier to control than any society in history? 44:16 – “If you’ve done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear” — why is this incorrect? 47:36 – Is the privacy problem getting worse?

The Eyemonger has received a #MaincrestMedia #BookAward! Check it out here: winners.maincrestmedia.com/product/the-ey… #writingcommunity #writerslift #readerscommunity #books @DanielSolove

📚 Want to dive deeper into AI? Our AI Book Club has just reached 4000+ members and 30 books! Check out the FULL LIST and join the club below: 1. "Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence," by @katecrawford 2. "The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the 21st Century's Greatest Dilemma," by @mustafasuleyman & @michaelbhaskar 3. "Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines," by @jovialjoy 4. "The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI," by @drfeifei 5. "Guardrails: Guiding Human Decisions in the Age of AI," by @ugasser & @Viktor_MS 6. "AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future," by @kaifulee & @ChenQiufan 7. "Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code," by @ruha9 8. "The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology," by @NitaFarahany 9.  "The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future," by @OrlyLobel 10. "Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI," by @madhumita29 11. "Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI," by @harari_yuval 12. "Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can Ensure That AI Works for Us," by @GaryMarcus 13. "Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology," by @anubradford 14. "The Quantified Worker: Law & Technology in the Modern Workplace," by @iajunwa 15. "AI Snake Oil: What AI Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference," by @random_walker & @sayashk 16. "The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley," by @MarietjeSchaake 17. "Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology," by @crmiller1 18. "Your Face Belongs to Us: A Tale of AI, a Secretive Startup, and the End of Privacy," by @kashhill 19. "On Privacy and Technology," by @DanielSolove 20. "A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the 5 Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains," by @maxsbennett 21. "The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip," by @stephenwitt 22. "Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism," by Sarah Wynn-Williams 23. "The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want," by @emilymbender and @alexhanna 24. "Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI," by @_KarenHao 25. "The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness" by @JonHaidt 26.  "The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource" by @chrislhayes 27.  "Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech" by @bcmerchant 28. "Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World" by @parmy 29. "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All" by @ESYudkowsky and @So8res 30. "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It" by @doctorow - What book are you reading? - 👉 Join our AI Book Club using the link below (it's free!) 👉 To receive my recommendations, essays, and curations on AI, join my newsletter's 83,200+ subscribers using the link below.

AI involves data scraping violating nearly all key principles of privacy law, including fairness, individual rights, transparency, consent, purpose specification & secondary restrictions, data minimization, onward transfer & data security. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… @DanielSolove

🚨 [AI RESEARCH] @DanielSolove and @hartzog have just published the final version of their excellent article "The Great Scrape: The Clash Between Scraping and Privacy," and it's a MUST-READ for everyone in AI. Quotes: "We are in the midst of a scraping epidemic—the Great Scrape—where companies and others are ruthlessly plundering the internet of its data without regard for law or ethics. Scraping and data privacy are in desperate need of a reconciliation. Scraping is in conflict with nearly all core privacy principles. Yet courts have delivered mixed outcomes that neither wholly endorse nor categorically prohibit scraping practices. The absence of clear legal guidance risks perpetuating uncertainty for those seeking to scrape data for legitimate and desirable purposes, for people sharing personal data with online services, and for those services bound and motivated to protect people’s personal information." - "Scraping already exists in partial tension with existing laws, but these laws are ambiguous, inconsistent, and weakly enforced. Many laws focus mostly or exclusively on the interests of organizations maintaining personal data rather than the individuals to whom the data pertains. As a result, legal battles over scraping often ignore privacy considerations. Privacy laws are also failing to address scraping because of the common view that 'publicly accessible' personal data lacks any privacy interests, even though there are many privacy harms that result from its collection, use, and further disclosure." - "Unfortunately, the inconvenient truth is that much AI is trained based on a massive taking of people’s data without consent, oversight, limitation, or any consideration of the harms it might create. Much profit from AI comes from the extraction of personal data as a 'free' resource. We have contended that online personal data is not free for the taking, and the law must stop this mass data looting." - "A more rigorous and nuanced legal approach is necessary to establish coherent rules that balance the public interest in scraping with people’s privacy. A ban on scraping is untenable, so a compromise must be reached. This compromise requires creativity to protect privacy in ways beyond many existing approaches. Ultimately, we recommend that lawmakers should view the systemic, automated mass collection and use of personal data through scraping as a privilege. By conditioning scraping upon serving the public interest, we can finally reconcile it with the protection of privacy." - 👉 Bookmark & download the article below. 👉 NEVER MISS my essays, curations, and recommendations on AI. Join my newsletter's 81,300+ subscribers.

In the #AI era, "Reasonable Expectation of Privacy" may NO LONGER be reasonable. We talk to top privacy law expert @DanielSolove of @gwlaw about how gov use of commercial data, legacy doctrines, & AI combine in unexpected ways. 🎧 Latest episode in our #AILawyer series: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ai-… #AILaw host @joelcoh

🚨 Prof. Daniel Solove published an updated version of his list of 500+ "Notable Privacy Books," and you can't miss it! It includes AI-related books and some of my FAVORITE all-star authors, such as: - @jovialjoy, "Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines" - @NitaFarahany, "The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology" - @CarissaVeliz, "The Ethics of Privacy and Surveillance" - @DanielSolove, "On Privacy and Technology" - @hackylawyER, "Beyond Data: Reclaiming Human Rights at the Dawn of the Metaverse" - @alicetiara, "The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media" - @HilkeSchellmann, "The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now" - @OrlyLobel, "The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future" - @BernsteinGaia, "Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies" - @AnupamChander and @haochensun, Data Sovereignty: From the Digital Silk Road to the Return of the State - @ByronTau, "Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State" - @CJ_Ohman, "The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care" - @kashhill, "Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup’s Quest to End Privacy as We Know It" - @damicli, "Data Protection Law and Emotion" - @anubradford, "Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology" - Marion Fourcade and @kjhealy, "The Ordinal Society" - Lindsay Weinberg, "Smart University: Student Surveillance in the Digital Age" - @random_walker & @sayashk, "AI Snake Oil: What AI Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference" - Ray Brescia, "The Private Is Political: Identity and Democracy in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism" - @xchatty, "Differential Privacy" - @iajunwa, "The Quantified Worker: Law and Technology in the Modern Workplace" - @_KarenHao, "Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI" - @emilymbender and @alexhanna, "The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want" - @EdinaRl, "Digital Death, Digital Assets and Post-mortem Privacy" - @keachhagey, "The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future" - @PaulGowder, "The Networked Leviathan" - Rainer Mühlhoff, "The Ethics of AI: Power, Critique, Responsibility" - @IgnacioCofone, "The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy" - @sandracmatz, "Mindmasters: The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior" - 👉 See Prof. Solove's full list below. 👉 NEVER MISS my essays and curations on the legal and ethical challenges of AI and stay ahead: join my newsletter's 72,500+ subscribers.

I just re-discovered @DanielSolove's works after stumbling upon fn 53 of my new favorite Hester speech which references the "I've got nothing to hide" paper which led me back to his blog and this incredible list of 400 Notable Privacy Books published in the last 70+ years. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

La Gran Historia de la Privacidad: 7 Décadas, 400 Libros, 1 Mapa El profesor Daniel J. Solove (2025) acaba de publicar un recorrido monumental por la literatura global sobre privacidad, analizando más de 400 libros desde 1960 hasta 2025. Un verdadero mapa del pensamiento sobre #privacidad, #vigilancia y #derechosdigitales. Algunas de las mentes claves destacadas: •#AlanWestin: pionero de la privacidad como libertad individual. •#MichelFoucault: el Panóptico y la vigilancia internalizada. •#JamesRule: anatomía de los sistemas de vigilancia pública y privada. •#AnitaAllen: privacidad con enfoque de género. •#OscarGandyJr.: discriminación algorítmica y control social. •#HelenNissenbaum: teoría de la integridad contextual. •#JulieECohen: capitalismo informacional y autonomía. •#ShoshanaZuboff: surveillance capitalism. •#FrankPasquale: opacidad de los algoritmos. •#WoodrowHartzog: el diseño tecnológico como campo de batalla legal. Principales líneas temáticas que emergen: •Privacidad como autonomía, dignidad y espacio personal. •Auge de la vigilancia digital: de los gobiernos al mercado. •Algoritmos, IA y el nuevo paradigma de control social. •La batalla global por los marcos regulatorios (#GDPR, #AIAct, etc.) •Perspectivas de género, clase y vulnerabilidad en el ecosistema digital. •Crítica profunda al capitalismo de datos y su impacto democrático. Este trabajo de #Solove no es solo un listado de libros: es el “ADN académico y político” de la privacidad global. Lectura obligada: 👉download.ssrn.com/2025/6/1/52777… #Surveillance #AIRegulation #DatosPersonales #Compliance #PrivacyLaw #BigData @TeachPrivacy @DanielSolove @oscarpuccinelli

My dialogue with Professor Daniel J. Solove @DanielSolove will be available soon. For now, I highly recommend reading his article titled "Artificial Intelligence and Privacy." Below is the link for your reference. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…