Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan recently cited the work of Cordell Faculty Director Neil Richards in her keynote address at the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Global Privacy Summit in Washington DC. At this annual global privacy convention,  attended by over 4000 privacy professionals, Chairperson Khan laid out her agency’s agenda for privacy regulation. In her address, she quoted from Neil Richards book, Why Privacy Matters, to describe the nature of the regulatory privacy problem we face, and also cited Professor Richards writings with Cordell Fellow Professor Woodrow Hartzog. Citing Professors Richards and Hartzog, Chairperson Khan stated, “Going forward, I believe we should approach data privacy and security protections by considering substantive limits rather than just procedural protections, which tend to create process requirements while sidestepping more fundamental questions about whether certain types of data collection and processing should be permitted in the first place.”

You can read Chairperson Khan’s speech here.

I believe we should approach data privacy and security protections by considering substantive limits rather than just procedural protections…