Intellectual Privacy Richards Neil Professor of Law Washington University
Intellectual Privacy Richards Neil Professor of Law Washington University Most people believe that our rights to privacy and free speech are inevitably in conflict. We live in an age of corporate and…
Specifikacia Intellectual Privacy Richards Neil Professor of Law Washington University
Intellectual Privacy Richards Neil Professor of Law Washington University
Most people believe that our rights to privacy and free speech are inevitably in conflict. We live in an age of corporate and government surveillance of our lives. Courts all over the world have struggled with how to reconcile the two for over a century, and the rise of the Internet has made this problem more urgent.
In Intellectual Privacy, Neil Richards offers a solution that ensures that our ideas and values keep pace with our technologies. And our free speech culture has created an anything-goes environment on the web, filled with hurtful and harmful expression and data flows. Because of the importance of free speech to open societies, he argues that when privacy and free speech truly conflict, free speech should almost always win.
But in sharp contrast to conventional wisdom, Richards argues that speech and privacy are only rarely in conflict. True invasions of privacy