Privacy and Data Protection Law

Privacy and Data Protection Law introduces a dynamic and rapidly growing field of law that is also fun to teach. Along with traditional topics like torts or the Fourth Amendment, it focuses on complex statutory and regulatory regimes that matter most to privacy law today. The book mixes conventional case excerpts with regulatory materials, hypothetical problems, robust coverage of global privacy law, and exploration of new technological frontiers. The Second Edition is comprehensively revised and updated throughout, including these and many other substantial new developments: Recent statutes such as the European Union's GDPR, the California Consumer Privacy Act, and novel state laws on health data and children's privacy. Major Supreme Court decisions including Carpenter v. United States, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Org., and TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez. New regulatory approaches at the FTC, court challenges to the scope of FTC authority, and the record-breaking $5 billion FTC penalty on Facebook. Added discussion of emerging technological challenges like biometric identification, algorithmic bias, and data retention in an era of cheap digital storage. The clear, broad, and up-to-date coverage of Privacy and Data Protection Law prepares students for the real-world legal challenges their clients will face in an information economy.