Information Privacy Law, Ninth Edition

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Authors

Daniel J. Solove
Paul M. Schwartz

Series / Aspen Casebook Series

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Book length

1310 pages

Publication Date

2026-12-15

Edition

Ninth Edition

Description

Table of contents

Preface

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A clear, comprehensive, and cutting-edge introduction to the field of information privacy law, with the latest cases and materials exploring issues of emerging technology, information privacy, algorithmic decisions, AI, data security, and European data protection law.

New to the 9th Edition:

New cases, notes, and materials on consumer privacy
Take It Down Act
Moody v. NetChoice and algorithms and speech debates
Chatrie v. United States (SCOTUS geofence case)
DOGE litigation
New state privacy statutes
New children’s privacy laws
Updated AI section with new laws such as the EU AI Act
New litigation under COPPA, CIPA, and other statutes
Updated cybersecurity material with coverage of AI and cybersecurity
Extensive coverage of recent developments in EU data protection law, including caselaw from the EU Court of Justice (CJEU)

Benefits for instructors and students:

Extensive coverage of FTC privacy enforcement, HIPAA and HHS enforcement, and standing in privacy lawsuits, among other topics.
Chapters devoted exclusively to consumer privacy, financial privacy, health privacy, data security, national security, employment privacy, education privacy, and EU data protection.
Sections on AI, government surveillance, social media, online marketing, and more.
Engaging approach to complicated laws and regulations such as HIPAA, FCRA, ECPA, GDPR, and CCPA.
Big picture view of how various areas of privacy law work.
Many cases, enforcement actions, examples, and explanations for clarity and concreteness.

Table of contents

SUMMARY OF CONTENTS

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments

1 INTRODUCTION
A. Information Privacy, Technology, and the Law
B. Information Privacy Law: Origins and Types
2 PERSPECTIVES ON PRIVACY
A. The Philosophical Discourse about Privacy
B. The Definition and the Value of Privacy
C. Privacy Skeptics
D. The Feminist Perspective on Privacy
E. The Civil Rights Perspective on Privacy
F. Privacy, Poverty, and Social Class
G. Beyond Privacy: Governing Data
3 PRIVACY AND THE MEDIA
A. Information Gathering
B. Disclosure of Truthful Information
C. Dissemination of False Information
D. Appropriation of Name or Likeness
E. Privacy Protections for Anonymity and Receipt of Ideas
4 PRIVACY AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
A. The Fourth Amendment and Emerging Technology
B. Information Gathering About First Amendment Activities
C. Federal Electronic Surveillance Law
D. Digital Searches and Seizures
E. Profiling, Algorithms, and AI in Criminal Justice
5 NATIONAL SECURITY AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE
A. The Intelligence Community
B. The Fourth Amendment Framework
C. Foreign Intelligence Gathering
D. NSA Surveillance
6 HEALTH PRIVACY
A. Confidentiality of Medical Information
B. Constitutional Protection of Medical Information
C. Genetic Information
7 GOVERNMENT RECORDS
A. Public Access to Government Records
B. Government Records and Use of Personal Data
C. Identification Records and Requirements
8 FINANCIAL DATA
A. The Fair Credit Reporting Act
B. The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
C. Federal and State Financial Privacy Laws
9 CONSUMER DATA
A. The U.S. System of Consumer Data Privacy Regulation
B. Tort Law
C. Contract Law
D. Property Law
E. FTC Section 5 Enforcement
F. Federal Statutory Regulation
G. State Statutory Regulation
H. Regulating Algorithms and AI
I. First Amendment Limitations on Privacy Regulation
10 DATA SECURITY
A. Introduction
B. Data Breach Notification
C. Data Security Requirements
D. Civil Liability
E. FTC Regulation
F. SEC Regulation
11 EDUCATION PRIVACY
A. School Searches and Surveillance
B. Drug Testing
C. School Records
D. EdTech
12 EMPLOYMENT PRIVACY
A. Workplace Searches
B. Workplace Surveillance
C. Workplace Drug Testing
D. The Issue of Consent
E. Testing, Questionnaires, and Polygraphs
F. Telephone Monitoring
G. Computer Monitoring and Searches
H. Automation and AI in Employment
13 EU AND INTERNATIONAL PRIVACY LAW
A. The OECD Privacy Guidelines
B. Privacy Protection in Europe
C. Cross-Border Data Transfers
D. Privacy Protection Worldwide

Index

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About the authors

Daniel Solove

John Marshall Harlan Research Professor of Law

George Washington University Law School

Education

B.A., Washington University
J.D., Yale University

Background

Daniel J. Solove is the John Marshall Harlan Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. He is a co-reporter of the American Law Institute's Restatement of Information Privacy Principles.

An internationally known expert in privacy law, Professor Solove has been interviewed and quoted by the media in several hundred articles and broadcasts, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, the Associated Press, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and NPR.

Professor Solove is the author of several books including:

Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security (Yale University Press 2011)
Understanding Privacy (Harvard University Press 2008)
The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet (Yale University Press 2007)
The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age (NYU Press 2004)

The Future of Reputation won the 2007 McGannon Award, and his books have been translated into Chinese, Italian, Korean, and Bulgarian, among other languages.

Professor Solove also co-authored several textbooks including:

Information Privacy Law (Aspen Publishing, 4th ed. 2012)
Privacy Law Fundamentals (IAPP, 2nd edition 2013)
Privacy and the Media (Aspen Publishing, 1st ed. 2009)
Privacy, Information, and Technology (Aspen Publishing, 3rd ed. 2012)

He has written more than 50 law review articles in the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, Columbia Law Review, NYU Law Review, Michigan Law Review, U. Pennsylvania Law Review, U. Chicago Law Review, California Law Review, Duke Law Journal, and many others. He has also written shorter works for Scientific American, Washington Post, and several other newspapers and periodicals.

Professor Solove serves on the advisory boards of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Future of Privacy Forum, and the Law and Humanities Institute. He is a fellow at the Ponemon Institute and at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project. Professor Solove blogs at Concurring Opinions, a blog covering issues of law, culture, and current events. He posts occasionally at the Huffington Post and blogs frequently on LinkedIn as one of its "thought leaders."

Paul Schwartz

Jefferson E. Peyser Professor of Law / Faculty Director, Berkeley Center for Law &spamp;amp; Technology

U.C. Berkeley School of Law

Education B.A., Brown University (1981) J.D., Yale University (1985)

Background Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology and Jefferson E. Peyser Professor of Law, Paul Schwartz is a leading international expert on information privacy and information law. His scholarship focuses on how the law has sought to regulate and shape information technology, as well as the impact of information technology on law and democracy. Schwartz joined the faculty in 2006 after teaching at Brooklyn Law School and the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville. He teaches privacy law and torts.

His recent articles include:

"The EU-US Privacy Collision: A Turn to Institutions and Procedures," 126
Harvard Law Review
1966 (2013)
"Information Privacy in the Cloud," 161
University of Pennsylvania Law Review
1623 (2013)
"The PII Problem: Privacy and a New Concept of Personally Identifiable Information,"
New York University Law Review
(2011) (with Daniel Solove)
"Regulating Governmental Data Mining in the United States and Germany: Constitutional Courts, the State, and New Technology,"
William and Mary Law Review
(2011)

Schwartz is also a coauthor of Information Privacy Law (Fifth edition, 2011), a casebook, and Privacy Law Fundamentals (2013), a treatise.

Schwartz has testified before Congress and served as an advisor to the Commission of the European Union and other international organizations. He assists numerous corporations and law firms with regulatory, policy, and governance issues relating to information privacy. He is a frequent speaker at technology conferences and corporate events in the United States and abroad.

Schwartz is a past recipient of the Berlin Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin and a Research Fellowship at the German Marshall Fund in Brussels. He is also a recipient of grants from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Fulbright Foundation, the German Academic Exchange, and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. He is a member of the organizing committee of the Privacy Law Salon and of the American Law Institute.

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Ninth Edition

Publication date

2026-12-15

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2026

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