Privacy as Trust

It seems like there is no such thing as privacy anymore. But the truth is that privacy is in danger only because we think about it in narrow, limited, and outdated ways. In this transformative work, Ari Ezra Waldman, leveraging the notion that we share information with others in contexts of trust, offers a roadmap for data privacy that will better protect our information in a digitized world. With case studies involving websites, online harassment, intellectual property, and social robots, Waldman shows how ‘privacy as trust’ can be applied in the most challenging real-world contexts to make privacy work for all of us. This book should be read by anyone concerned with reshaping the theory and practice of privacy in the modern world.

Author Biography

Ari Ezra Waldman is Professor of Law and Director of the Innovation Center for Law and Technology at New York Law School. He is a widely published and internationally sought-after scholar of data privacy, online social life, and cyber harassment. He founded the first and, to-date, only law school clinic that provides free counsel to victims of cyber harassment. His scholarship on privacy and trust won the Otto L. Walter Distinguished Writing Award in 2016. Professor Waldman also won the Best Paper Award, sponsored by the International Association of Privacy Professionals, at the 2017 Privacy Law Scholars Conference. He earned an A.B., magna cum laude, from Harvard College; a J.D. from Harvard Law School; and a Ph.D. in sociology from Columbia University.