Daniel J. Solove

Who they are

His 2021 article in the George Washington Law Review gives his position as John Marshall Harlan Research Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School. In it he argued that the privacy paradox is "a myth created by faulty logic". Behaviour in privacy studies, he wrote, consists of decisions about risk in specific contexts, while the attitudes people report are general, so a single disclosure says little about how much someone values their data.

He also argued that privacy self-management, protecting data through notices, choices and settings for each person, cannot scale across every service a person uses, and that law should regulate the architecture of the data economy instead.

Key papers

Solove, D. J. (2021). "The myth of the privacy paradox." George Washington Law Review, 89(1), 1-51.

Key ideas

Behaviour and attitude answer different questions, so the gap between them is not a contradiction. See The Privacy Paradox.

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