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A Duty of Loyalty for Privacy Law
Document Type
Blog Posting
Publication Date
2020
Publication Title
Oxford Business Law Blog
Abstract
It wasn’t supposed to be like this. When the Internet emerged in the mid-1990s, it was heralded as an unprecedented technology of human empowerment; a place where human beings could meet, learn, and express themselves, transforming our society for the better. It was also hailed as a realm of privacy, in which those empowered humans could read, connect and communicate on their own terms, safely cocooned in bubbles of anonymity where, as the famous New Yorker cartoon put it, ‘no one knows you are a dog.’
Keywords
Fiduciary, Loyalty, Privacy, Data, Commercial Law
Publication Citation
Neil M. Richards & Woodrow Hartzog, A Duty of Loyalty for Privacy Law, Oxford Business Law Blog (Oct. 28, 2020), https://blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/business-law-blog/blog/2020/10/duty-loyalty-privacy-law
Repository Citation
Richards, Neil M. and Hartzog, Woodrow, "A Duty of Loyalty for Privacy Law" (2020). Scholarship@WashULaw. 561.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_scholarship/561