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On Privacy and Technology
Privacy law was built for paper files and phone taps. It has not kept pace with AI.
On Privacy and Technology makes a direct case. Existing privacy law was built for a world of paper files and phone taps. It has not kept pace with AI, biometric tracking, or algorithmic decision making. Daniel Solove has spent his career arguing that point, and this book is his sharpest and most current statement of it.
Solove is the John Marshall Harlan Research Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School. He has taught and written about privacy law there for over two decades. He is one of the most cited privacy law scholars in the country. That scholarship shows in how carefully he builds his argument here rather than simply asserting it.
The book works through facial recognition, predictive policing, and automated decision systems. It measures the gap between how these technologies actually function and how current law was written to regulate much simpler tools. Solove does not stop at describing the problem. He proposes concrete directions for how privacy law needs to change to close that gap.
This is a shorter, more accessible book than his earlier academic work, without losing the legal precision that gives his arguments weight.
Recommended for privacy and compliance practitioners who need to understand where privacy law is heading, not just where it stands today. Legal, compliance, and product leaders working with AI systems will find direct, practical value in his proposed fixes.
Originally published in ISSA Journal’s "The Cyber Library" column, November-December 2025 issue, by Jay Carson, Semper Sec’s Cyber Librarian. Read more at issa.org.
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