Privacy Rights and Wrongs: Fordham Invades Justice Scalia's Privacy

The Privacy Rights and Wrongs conference at Fordham yesterday had many of the heavy hitters thinkers in privacy today, though Daniel Solove, professor at George Washington and author of The Future of Reputation, was the star of the show, in our opinion.

He opined on the meaning of privacy: "It's a concept in disarray. It means so many things that it no longer has a legal meaning," he said, calling the term "vague," "protean," and "suffering from an embarrassment of meanings." It needs a clearer definition in order to guide adjudication and lawmaking, said Solove.

We agree. It's been the most difficult aspect of making "privacy issues" the central theme of our work this year. It extends into everything, and we don't have enough time, skill, or smarts to cover EVERYTHING.

There was one little thing we covered from the conference, over at Above The Law. One of the speakers was a professor from Fordham University who revealed that he tasked the 15 students in his Privacy Information Law class with invading the privacy of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Check out our post on it over at Above The Law.

What Fordham Knows About Justice Scalia [Above The Law]