Privacy law needs an update

The following is an excerpt from The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy, by Ignacio Cofone, published by Cambridge University Press, one of the five finalists for this year's $60,000 Donner Prize for the best public policy book written by a Canadian. The winner will be announced in Toronto on May 8.

Ignacio Cofone, author of The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy, writes 'privacy law is built on false behavioural assumptions that treat it, for the most part, like traditional two-party commercial exchanges.'Photograph courtesy of Cambridge University Press

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BY IGNACIO COFONE

May 2, 2024

Privacy law needs an update. It’s older than the internet—let alone AI. But the issue isn’t that there are new technologies that it didn’t foresee. Rather, the issue is that it’s built on rules for a society that no longer exists. Privacy in the information economy...

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