Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2013

Keywords

data, fusion centers, data mining, intelligence gathering, privacy

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A response to "The Dangers of Surveillance," by Neil M. Richards, 126 Harvard Law Review 1934 (2013).

Abstract

In his insightful article The Dangers of Surveillance, 126 HARV. L. REV. 1934 (2013), Neil Richards offers a framework for evaluating the implications of government surveillance programs that is centered on protecting "intellectual privacy." Although we share his interest in recognizing and protecting privacy as a condition of personal and intellectual development, we worry in this essay that, as an organizing principle for policy, "intellectual privacy" is too narrow and politically fraught. Drawing on other work, we therefore recommend that judges, legislators, and executives focus instead on limiting the potential of surveillance technologies to effect programs of broad and indiscriminate surveillance.

Publication Citation

126 Harvard Law Review Forum 262 (2013).

Disciplines

Internet Law | Privacy Law

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