#249: Information Fiduciaries: The Privacy Awakens

Tech Policy Podcast

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4.8 • 45 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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On the previous episode of the show we covered a new legal concept of information fiduciaries and how it can apply to tech policy. Today we are diving in deeper and applying the concept to privacy with Lindsey Barrett, staff attorney and teaching fellow at the Institute for Public Representation Communications & Technology Clinic at Georgetown University, joins the show to discuss the difference between American and European views on privacy, and how a privacy policy based around the concept of information fiduciaries might look in the US. For more, see Barrett’s recent paper on the subject.

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0:00.0	Welcome to a tech policy podcast. I'm Ashkin Kazarian. On today's show, we have Lindsay Barrett,
0:12.7	staff attorney and teaching fellow at the Institute for Public Representation, Communications and Technology Clinic at Georgetown University.
0:20.1	Lindsay, thank you for coming.
0:21.6	Thank you for having me.
0:22.6	Today we're going to discuss your article about information fiduciaries and the privacy framework
0:27.6	and how those two concepts can be together.
0:30.6	The United States right now is at Coast Road.
0:33.6	We have a California Consumer Protection Act that is going to go into effect on January 1st of 2020,
0:41.5	pushing everyone to have a privacy debate over again, which is, I think, a good thing because
0:46.8	a lot of things have changed since last time. We kind of thought through privacy reform and
0:53.2	how technology has changed that will understand privacy,
0:57.0	both from government and consumer privacy.
1:00.0	And now we have this, you know, question of, do we pass a federal privacy legislation?
1:07.0	Do we let California go into effect and states pass for our own laws?
1:11.8	How is it going to affect the economy?
1:13.4	How is it going to affect consumer rights?
1:15.6	There are so many questions that we have to ask ourselves.
1:18.6	And there is no clear one solution that both parties can come to, not yet at least.
1:25.1	We have a little bit more time left.
1:27.2	But I would ask you,
1:28.5	what is the failure of notice and choice model that we have right now? Oh, man. How much time
1:35.2	you got? So in this paper, I kind of go through why, what are the failures of not just
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