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  • Privacy's Blueprint Ch. 1

Tech Policy Press

What Kafka Can Teach Us About Privacy in the Age of AI (Nov. 3, 2024)

Woodrow Hartzog is interviewed on the Tech Policy Press Podcast about his recent paper, written with Daniel Solove, exploring the novelist Franz Kafka’s worldview as a vehicle to arrive at key insights for regulating privacy in the age of AI. 


The conversation explores why privacy-as-control models, which rely on individual consent and choice, fail in the digital age, especially with the advent of AI systems. Hartzog argues for a "societal structure model" of privacy protection that would impose substantive obligations on companies and set baseline protections for everyone rather than relying on individual consent. Kafka's work is a lens to examine how people often make choices against their own interests when confronted with complex technological systems, and how AI is amplifying these existing privacy and control problems.

Modern Law - Droit MOderne

Hartzog on the dangers of regulating AI with half measures (Dec. 14, 2023)

International privacy expert Woodrow Hartzog discusses the state of AI regulation in the U.S., his thoughts on the global dynamics at play, and his concerns surrounding the normalization of surveillance and our reliance on half-measures to save us from the potential harms of AI. Listen to the conversation on the Canadian Bar Association’s Modern Law podcast.

New Books Network

Privacy’s Blueprint (Mar. 28, 2023)

Every day, Internet users interact with technologies designed to undermine their privacy. Social media apps, surveillance technologies, and the Internet of Things are all built in ways that make it hard to guard personal information. And the law says this is okay because it is up to users to protect themselves―even when the odds are deliberately stacked against them.


Jake Chanenson interviews Woodrow Hartzog as they discuss his book, Privacy’s Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies, and ways in which the law can demand that technology be made worthy of our trust.

Freedom Unfinished

Rise of the Surveillance State (Sept. 26, 2022)

Our most personal and intimate information living online is now a commodity to be bought and sold without our knowledge or consent. Given this new reality, how do we ensure that we are not victimized by those who profit off holding something of such value—namely, our most intimate and personal information?


Get the answer to this question and more by listening to ACLU of Massachusetts executive director Carol Rose and Technology for Liberty program director Kade Crockford explore big data and artificial intelligence through the lens of power, democracy and the broken systems that will determine the future of our rights. Privacy expert Woodrow Hartzog and Senator Ed Markey are interviewed on episode 2 of the four-part series Freedom Unfinished from the ACLU of Massachusetts.

Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast

Breached! Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve It (May 2, 2022)

Digital connections permeate our lives-and so do data breaches. Given that we must be online for basic communication, finance, healthcare, and more, it is alarming how difficult it is to create rules for securing our personal information. Despite the passage of many data security laws, data breaches are increasing at a record pace. In Breached! Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve It (Oxford UP, 2022), Daniel Solove and Woodrow Hartzog, two of the world's leading experts on privacy and data security, argue that the law fails because, ironically, it focuses too much on the breach itself. They discuss this and more on Exchanges: A Cambridge Up Podcast.

Bloomberg Law

Zuckerberg Agrees to Congressional Testimony (Mar. 28, 2018)

Woodrow Hartzog, (then)  a professor at Northeastern University Law School, discusses Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s agreement to appear before the House Energy and Commerce Committee about the company's data usage policies. He speaks with Bloomberg's June Grasso. Listen to the conversation on the Bloomberg Law podcast.

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