“Privacy law is suffering from a midlife crisis,” writes Omer Tene in Concurring Opinions. Policymakers are working toward the second generation of privacy law due to “the challenges posed to the existing privacy framework” by increases in Big Data analytics, the movement of personal data to the cloud, the rise in popularity of social networks and individuals’ dissemination of their own personal data. But current approaches fail to adequately address the limitations of existing privacy law, Tene writes. “The major dilemmas and policy choices of informational privacy remain unresolved,” he writes.
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