What Kafka Can Teach Us
Daniel Solove
Professor, GW Law School + CEO, TeachPrivacy + Organizer, Privacy+Security Forum
Although Kafka shows us the plight of the disempowered individual, his work also paradoxically suggests that empowering the individual isn’t the answer to protecting privacy, especially in the age of artificial intelligence.
Kafka in the Age of AI and the Futility of Privacy as Control
In my short essay with Prof. Woodrow Hartzog, Kafka in the Age of AI and the Futility of Privacy as Control, 104 B.U. L. Rev. 1021 (2024), we discuss what Kafka’s work teaches about how best to regulate data privacy.
You can download the article for free on SSRN.
Some key quotes from our essay:
Listen to Woodrow Hartzog discuss our piece here.
You can download the article for free on SSRN.
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Chief Privacy Officer at Northrop Grumman Corporation
20hAlways enjoy your insight stand, especially as it uses stories and literature. Illustrate what may sometimes be the abstract.
total privacy == total security
20hA similar argument could be make for cellular 911 services.. A rush to push that out caused misunderstandings of local law enforcement bounded and hospital intakes… programming error.. architectual error.. but that was an error. Is it impossible to train a model to not include private data? Training a model and not respecting privacy is an error, but most models seem to have a high error rate.. so maybe that is private enough.