Technology, Human Rights, and Cybersecurity (Winter 2020)

Section 2 . 4

[Feb. 25] Private Sector Privacy II: Company Policies--The Case of Facebook

Vivek Krishnamurthy

• What is the significance, of any, of a company recognizing that privacy is a human right?
• Does the law regulate our privacy vis-a-vis corporations? Or do the company's polices and procedures do so?
• How can you tell what privacy rights you have against a corporation?
• How should companies collect, store, and use individuals' private data?
• Is the big tech business model fundamentally incompatible with privacy?

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