Legal Frameworks for Identity and Personal Data

Live Video

• Invited lecturer: Elizabeth Renieris

  • Pre-Reading Material: Do we really want to “sell” ourselves? The risks of a property law paradigm for personal data ownership

  • Other suggested reading: Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Thomas Ramge; The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff; The Right of Publicity: Privacy Reimagined for a Public World by Jennifer E. Rothman

  • Video Session Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5bTs6vbN5M&feature=youtu.be

Short Description

Two competing approaches to our personal data-fueled economy are emerging. The first treats personal data as an asset capable of being transferred, traded, and commoditized through contract law (the “property approach”), while the second treats personal data as an extension of our identity, calling for a personal, non-transferable (i.e. inalienable), intrinsic right in our data (the “rights-based approach”). The pace of technological change is accelerating the urgency of picking an approach or determining whether they can coexist. The topic that I would like to explore is how we can design guiding principles to resolve this tension and pave a realistic path forward.

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