Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2015
Publication Title
Cardozo Law Review De Novo
First Page
107
Abstract
Legal academic and policy discourse generally presumes that information privacy and data security are interchangeable goals. The conventional wisdom is that data security is a handmaiden of information privacy, and so what serves data security will serve information privacy. However, this view is an oversimplification of the relationship between the two fields. This Essay aids law and policy development in both fields by correctly defining their relationship to one another. Data security has separate objectives from information privacy that can be agnostic or even in opposition to information privacy. The law should acknowledge information privacy and data security as separate institutional objectives to prevent undesirable or at least unpredictable results in edge cases in which data security's objectives run counter to those of information privacy.
Recommended Citation
Lauren Henry Scholz,
Information Privacy and Data Security
Cardozo Law Review De Novo
107
(2015),
Available at: https://ir.law.fsu.edu/articles/757