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Privacy’s Blueprint
Luncheon Series

Privacy’s Blueprint

The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies

 

In this talk, Professor Woodrow Hartzog argues that the law should require software and hardware makers to respect privacy in the design of their products.

Against the often self-serving optimism of Silicon Valley and the inertia of tech evangelism, privacy gains will come from better rules for products, not users. The current model of regulating use fosters exploitation.

Hartzog speaks on the need to develop the theoretical underpinnings of a new kind of privacy law that is responsive to the way people actually perceive and use digital technologies. The law can demand encryption. It can prohibit malicious interfaces that deceive users and leave them vulnerable. It can require safeguards against abuses of biometric surveillance. It can, in short, make the technology itself worthy of our trust

 

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Past Event
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
Time
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM ET
Location
Harvard Law School Wasserstein Hall
Milstein West B (Room 2019, Second Floor)
Cambridge, MA 02138 US

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