Planning privacy training can be daunting, but we have some valuable resources to kickstart your efforts.
I have created an illustrated whiteboard to summarize privacy program topics in just 1 page. The whiteboard is free for personal use.
I have courses on more than 180 privacy and security topics.
Check out my full course list here.
My latest cartoon – on data minimization. Maryland’s privacy law incorporated a strong data minimization requirement, and future privacy regulation might follow suit. For more about data minimization, see Jordan Francis’s terrific article, Data Minimization’s Substantive Turn: Key Questions and Operational Challenges Posed by New State Privacy Legislation.
Artificial intelligence is rapidly advancing, influencing our work and daily lives. Unknowingly, we interact with and supply information to diverse AI systems every day. Here are my latest AI tools and insights to keep you current.
This cartoon illustrates a key point my new book, ON PRIVACY AND TECHNOLOGY — the law must establish the right incentives for technology to promote privacy, safety, and other important values:
Only by establishing the right legal structure and the right incentives can the law succeed in holding creators and users of technology accountable. Instead, the law often does the opposite. It empowers the powerful; it makes exceptions for new technologies from traditional mechanisms of accountability; it allows organizations to construct business models based on massive scale and cheap expenses that are only possible by externalizing costs to individuals. Courts often fail to recognize privacy harms or trivialize them. Even when there are clear violations of privacy laws, courts use creativity not to help victims but to close off ways to obtain redress. Through its actions, the law is sending a message regarding new technologies: to create and use them irresponsibly and to care mainly about growth and profit. When harm is caused, the law often finds a way to help the wrongdoer evade responsibility. To avoid a dystopian future, we must demand that the law take a different path. (pp. 107-108)
You can order the book here.
In 2025, we have seen significant privacy invasions at the federal level and a push to weaken and nullify privacy protections.
Here are some writings and videos that discuss the situation we’re in and why it should be of concern.
Earlier this year, I wrote Privacy in Authoritarian Times: Surveillance Capitalism and Government Surveillance.
I wish I could say that my concerns were wrong, but sadly, the events of the past few months have shown that we’re at a most dire time for privacy.
Here’s a cartoon about individual privacy rights. As I argued in my article, The Limitations of Privacy Rights, 98 Notre Dame Law Review 975 (2023), privacy law puts far to much onus on individuals to protect their privacy through exercising privacy rights such as rights to access, correct, object, or delete. These rights are time-consuming to use and do not scale given the number of companies that collect and use personal data. People just don’t know enough information to exercise rights in a meaningful way.
The field of privacy is expanding rapidly, yet breaking into it can be challenging. Today I will share some essential resources I developed to kickstart or enhance your career in the privacy field.
My full collection of resources is here on this master page.
Head over here to see a listing of privacy jobs. I update this weekly.
In this essay, I explore over 400 privacy-related books spanning more than 70 years! Examining the books chronologically also opens a window into history, as the books reflect the concerns, ideas, and terminology of the times in which they were written.
Here’s a new privacy cartoon for you to enjoy, along with a selection of my favorite classics from the archive. Enjoy the laughs!
