The Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC) is an annual event co-organized by the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology at UC Berkeley School of Law and The George Washington University Law School. It brings together privacy law scholars and practitioners from around the world to discuss current issues and foster connections between academia and practice.
The 2020 conference featured a diverse range of topics, including the impact of artificial intelligence on privacy, algorithmic decision-making, data governance, and the legal implications of emerging technologies. Sessions such as "Safe Harbors for Algorithms?" and "Understanding Chilling Effects and their Harms" highlighted critical discussions on these subjects.
PLSC is designed to facilitate in-depth workshops where papers are introduced by discussion leaders, followed by group discussions. This format encourages constructive feedback and collaborative exploration of privacy law issues. The conference also offers networking opportunities through social breaks and mentoring sessions, fostering a supportive community for privacy scholars and practitioners.
The conference is particularly beneficial for privacy law scholars, practitioners, and policymakers seeking to engage with cutting-edge research and contribute to the evolving discourse on privacy law. Its collaborative environment provides a unique platform for participants to refine their work and stay informed about the latest developments in the field.
Speakers(124)
Aaron K. Massey
Co-authored 'Emotions, Computing, and Privacy: Developing an Ethical Framework for Designing Affective Computing Systems' presented at PLSC 2020.
Abhilasha Ravichander
Co-authored 'Evaluating How Global Privacy Principles Answer Consumers' Questions About Mobile App Privacy' presented at PLSC 2020.
Adam Smith
Co-authored 'Modeling the Right to be Forgotten' presented at PLSC 2020.
Aileen Nielsen
Presented 'Is Personal Data a Market Good? The Intractability of Paying for Privacy' at PLSC 2020.
Alexandra Wood
Co-authored 'Singling Out: What a Rigorous Legal-Technical Analysis Teaches Us About Privacy Regulation' presented at PLSC 2020.
Alice Marwick
Presented 'Privacy Work: The Labor of Protecting Information in a Networked Age' at PLSC 2020.
Aloni Cohen
Co-authored 'Singling Out: What a Rigorous Legal-Technical Analysis Teaches Us About Privacy Regulation' presented at PLSC 2020.
Andrea Kleinsmith
Co-authored 'Emotions, Computing, and Privacy: Developing an Ethical Framework for Designing Affective Computing Systems' presented at PLSC 2020.
Andrew E. Stivers
Discussed the paper on duty of loyalty in privacy law at PLSC 2020.
Andrew N. Ferguson
Presented 'Structural Sensor Surveillance' at PLSC 2020.
Angie Raymond
Discussed the paper on China's courtroom AI applications at PLSC 2020.
Anne L. Washington
Presented 'Technologies of Agreement: Automating Regulation with Data Standards' at PLSC 2020.
Anne Toomey McKenna
Discussed the paper on ubiquitous wiretaps and passive listening at PLSC 2020.
Annie Anton
Discussed the paper on applying a single privacy policy to many contexts at PLSC 2020.
Aravind Chandrasekaran
Co-authored 'Corporate Data Ethics: Data Governance Transformations for the Age of Advanced Analytics and AI' presented at PLSC 2020.
Arunesh Mathur
Co-authored 'What Makes a Dark Pattern... Dark? Design Attributes, Normative Considerations, and Measurement Methods' presented at PLSC 2020.
BJ Ard
Co-authored 'Structuring TechLaw' presented at PLSC 2020.
Brenda Leong
Hosted a session on pandemic & privacy: thermal scanning, facial recognition, and AI at PLSC 2020.
Brett Max Kaufman
Discussed Matthew Tokson's paper on inescapable surveillance at PLSC 2020.
Carleen Zubrzycki
Presented 'Health Privacy Exceptionalism and the Medicalization of Social Issues' at PLSC 2020.
Chris Hoofnagle
Co-hosted a lunch session with Dan Solove at PLSC 2020.
Chris Jay Hoofnagle
UC Berkeley Law & School of Information
Christopher Wolf
Discussed Mark MacCarthy's paper on enhanced privacy duties at PLSC 2020.
Dan Solove
Co-hosted a lunch session with Chris Hoofnagle at PLSC 2020.
Daniel Weitzner
Discussed the paper on coronavirus safeguards bill at PLSC 2020.
David Carroll
Presented 'On Being a Client-Scholar-Practitioner' at PLSC 2020.
David Lie
Co-authored 'Automating Accountability? Privacy Policies, Data Transparency, and the Third Party Problem' presented at PLSC 2020.
Davon Norris
Co-authored 'Corporate Data Ethics: Data Governance Transformations for the Age of Advanced Analytics and AI' presented at PLSC 2020.
DeBrae Kennedy-Mayo
Discussed Gautam Hans's paper on data-inalienability at PLSC 2020.
Dennis Hirsch
Co-authored 'Corporate Data Ethics: Data Governance Transformations for the Age of Advanced Analytics and AI' presented at PLSC 2020.
Deven Desai
Discussed Peter Ormerod's paper on making privacy injuries concrete at PLSC 2020.
Dissent Doe
Hosted a session on data security enforcement in 2020 at PLSC 2020.
Elettra Bietti
Presented 'Two Genealogies of Power and Autonomy in the Platform Economy' at PLSC 2020.
Elizabeth Renieris
Discussed Nizan Packin's paper on financial regulation and consumer data at PLSC 2020.
Emily McReynolds
Discussed the paper on corporate data ethics at PLSC 2020.
Franziska Boehm
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius
Co-authored 'Protected Grounds and the System of Non-Discrimination Law in the Context of Algorithmic Decision-Making and Artificial Intelligence' presented at PLSC 2020.
Gaia Bernstein
Discussed Matthew Bodie's paper on employees as data subjects at PLSC 2020.
Gautam Hans
Presented 'Data-Inalienability' at PLSC 2020.
Gavin Phillipson
Discussed Jon Penney's paper on chilling effects at PLSC 2020.
Gordon Hull
Presented 'The Death of the Privacy Author' at PLSC 2020.
Ignacio Cofone
Discussed the paper on automating accountability at PLSC 2020.
Ilaria Liccardi
Co-authored 'Ubiquitous Wiretaps and the Legal Implications of Passive Listening' presented at PLSC 2020.
Ira Rubinstein
Hosted a lunch session at PLSC 2020.
Jake Goldenfein
Co-authored 'Mechanism Design for What?' presented at PLSC 2020.
Jan Whittington
Discussed the paper 'Mechanism Design for What?' at PLSC 2020.
Janneke Gerards
Co-authored 'Protected Grounds and the System of Non-Discrimination Law in the Context of Algorithmic Decision-Making and Artificial Intelligence' presented at PLSC 2020.
Jennifer Granick
Presented 'Improving Search and Seizure Warrants for the Digital Age' at PLSC 2020.
Joel R. Reidenberg
Co-authored 'Evaluating How Global Privacy Principles Answer Consumers' Questions About Mobile App Privacy' presented at PLSC 2020.
Jolynn Dellinger
Discussed Jennifer Granick's paper on digital search and seizure warrants at PLSC 2020.
Jon Penney
Presented 'Understanding Chilling Effects and their Harms' at PLSC 2020.
Jonathan Mayer
Co-authored 'What Makes a Dark Pattern... Dark? Design Attributes, Normative Considerations, and Measurement Methods' presented at PLSC 2020.
Jordan Brensinger
Presented 'Identity Theft and the Reproduction of Inequality' at PLSC 2020.
Joris van Hoboken
Discussed Pauline Kim's paper on algorithmic safe harbors at PLSC 2020.
Josephine Wolff
Hosted a session on pitching and writing op-eds on privacy law at PLSC 2020.
Joshua Kroll
Discussed the paper on modeling the right to be forgotten at PLSC 2020.
Julie Cohen
Hosted a senior-junior faculty mentoring session at PLSC 2020.
Karen Levy
Cornell University, Department of Information Science & Law School
Kate Weisburd
Discussed Andrew Ferguson's paper on structural sensor surveillance at PLSC 2020.
Katherine Strandburg
Discussed the paper on structuring tech law at PLSC 2020.
Katie McInnis
Discussed Steven Hazel's paper on privacy self-help at PLSC 2020.
Kendra Albert
Discussed Carleen Zubrzycki's paper on health privacy exceptionalism at PLSC 2020.
Kevin Moriarty
Discussed the paper on global privacy principles and mobile app privacy at PLSC 2020.
Kirsty Hughes
University of Cambridge
Kobbi Nissim
Co-authored 'Singling Out: What a Rigorous Legal-Technical Analysis Teaches Us About Privacy Regulation' presented at PLSC 2020.
Lance Hoffman
Hosted a session on the Apple/Google coronavirus tracking tool at PLSC 2020.
Lee McGuigan
Co-authored 'Mechanism Design for What?' presented at PLSC 2020.
Lilian Edwards
Co-authored 'The Coronavirus (Safeguards) Bill 2020: Proposed protections for digital interventions and in relation to immunity certificates' presented at PLSC 2020.
Lindsey Barrett
Co-authored 'Ubiquitous Wiretaps and the Legal Implications of Passive Listening' presented at PLSC 2020.
Lior Strahilevitz
Hosted a session on teaching privacy law via Zoom at PLSC 2020.
Lisa Austin
Co-authored 'Automating Accountability? Privacy Policies, Data Transparency, and the Third Party Problem' presented at PLSC 2020.
Lisa Nelson
Discussed Alice Marwick's paper on privacy work at PLSC 2020.
Luke Stark
Discussed the paper on emotions, computing, and privacy at PLSC 2020.
Lydia Stamato
Co-authored 'Emotions, Computing, and Privacy: Developing an Ethical Framework for Designing Affective Computing Systems' presented at PLSC 2020.
Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo
Co-authored 'One Size Does Not Fit All: Applying a Single Privacy Policy to (Too) Many Contexts' presented at PLSC 2020.
Marcin Betkier
Discussed Elettra Bietti's paper on platform economy at PLSC 2020.
Margaret Hu
Discussed Gordon Hull's paper on the death of the privacy author at PLSC 2020.
Marika Swanberg
Co-authored 'Modeling the Right to be Forgotten' presented at PLSC 2020.
Mark MacCarthy
Presented 'Enhanced Privacy Duties for Dominant Companies' at PLSC 2020.
Matthew Bodie
Presented 'Employees as Data Subjects' at PLSC 2020.
Matthew Kugler
Discussed Orin Kerr's paper on originalism at PLSC 2020.
Matthew Tokson
Presented 'Inescapable Surveillance' at PLSC 2020.
Megan Gray
Discussed David Carroll's paper on client-scholar-practitioner roles at PLSC 2020.
Micah Altman
Co-authored 'Singling Out: What a Rigorous Legal-Technical Analysis Teaches Us About Privacy Regulation' presented at PLSC 2020.
Michael Froomkin
Discussed Peter Swire's paper on PORT-IA at PLSC 2020.
Michael Veale
Co-authored 'The Coronavirus (Safeguards) Bill 2020: Proposed protections for digital interventions and in relation to immunity certificates' presented at PLSC 2020.
Michele Gilman
Discussed Jordan Brensinger's paper on identity theft at PLSC 2020.
Mihir Kshirsagar
Co-authored 'What Makes a Dark Pattern... Dark? Design Attributes, Normative Considerations, and Measurement Methods' presented at PLSC 2020.
Neil Richards
Co-authored 'A Duty of Loyalty in Privacy Law' presented at PLSC 2020.
Nizan Packin
Presented 'Show Me the (Data About the) Money! Financial Regulation, and Consumer Financial Information' at PLSC 2020.
Norman Sadeh
Co-authored 'Evaluating How Global Privacy Principles Answer Consumers' Questions About Mobile App Privacy' presented at PLSC 2020.
Orin S. Kerr
Hosted a social break session at PLSC 2020.
Paul Ohm
Discussed Rebecca Wexler's paper on privacy as privilege at PLSC 2020.
Pauline Kim
Presented 'Safe Harbors for Algorithms?' at PLSC 2020.
Peter Ormerod
Presented 'Making Privacy Injuries Concrete' at PLSC 2020.
Peter Swire
Presented 'The Portability and Other Required Transfers Impact Assessment (PORT-IA): Assessing Competition, Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Other Considerations' at PLSC 2020.
Peter Yi
Co-authored 'Automating Accountability? Privacy Policies, Data Transparency, and the Third Party Problem' presented at PLSC 2020.
Piers Norris Turner
Co-authored 'Corporate Data Ethics: Data Governance Transformations for the Age of Advanced Analytics and AI' presented at PLSC 2020.
Ping Sun
Co-authored 'Automating Accountability? Privacy Policies, Data Transparency, and the Third Party Problem' presented at PLSC 2020.
Prashant Nalini Vasudevan
Co-authored 'Modeling the Right to be Forgotten' presented at PLSC 2020.
Priscilla Regan
George Mason University
Rebecca Crootof
Co-authored 'Structuring TechLaw' presented at PLSC 2020.
Rebecca Green
Discussed Visakha Phusamruat's paper on privacy in public space at PLSC 2020.
Rebecca Wexler
Hosted a social break session at PLSC 2020.
Rediet Abebe
Hosted a session on privacy law scholars for racial justice at PLSC 2020.
Salome Viljoen
Co-authored 'Mechanism Design for What?' presented at PLSC 2020.
Sam Wrigley
Discussed the paper on non-discrimination law and AI at PLSC 2020.
Serge Egelman
Discussed the paper on dark patterns at PLSC 2020.
Shazeda Ahmed
Co-authored 'In the Shadow of the 'Smart Court': Challenges to Fairness, Transparency, and Accountability in China's Applications of Courtroom AI' presented at PLSC 2020.
Siona Listokin
Discussed Anne L. Washington's paper on automating regulation with data standards at PLSC 2020.
Srinivasan Parthasarathy
Co-authored 'Corporate Data Ethics: Data Governance Transformations for the Age of Advanced Analytics and AI' presented at PLSC 2020.
Steven Hazel
Presented 'Privacy Self-Help' at PLSC 2020.
Stuart Shapiro
Discussed the paper on singling out in privacy regulation at PLSC 2020.
Svetlana Yakovleva
Discussed Aileen Nielsen's paper on paying for privacy at PLSC 2020.
Tal Zarsky
Hosted a session on future privacy law topics at PLSC 2020.
Tara Whalen
Discussed the paper on real-time bidding and adtech under European data protection law at PLSC 2020.
Thomas Norton
Co-authored 'Evaluating How Global Privacy Principles Answer Consumers' Questions About Mobile App Privacy' presented at PLSC 2020.
Timothy Bartley
Co-authored 'Corporate Data Ethics: Data Governance Transformations for the Age of Advanced Analytics and AI' presented at PLSC 2020.
Visakha Phusamruat
Presented 'Privacy in Public Space: The Idea, Language and Image' at PLSC 2020.
Wenjun Qiu
Co-authored 'Automating Accountability? Privacy Policies, Data Transparency, and the Third Party Problem' presented at PLSC 2020.
William McGeveran
University of Minnesota Law School
Woodrow Hartzog
Hosted a senior-junior faculty mentoring session at PLSC 2020.
Xin Dai
Co-authored 'In the Shadow of the 'Smart Court': Challenges to Fairness, Transparency, and Accountability in China's Applications of Courtroom AI' presented at PLSC 2020.
Yafit Lev-Aretz
Co-authored 'One Size Does Not Fit All: Applying a Single Privacy Policy to (Too) Many Contexts' presented at PLSC 2020.
Event Details
- Date
- June 4-5, 2020
- 2 days
- Location
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Audience
- Privacy law scholars, practitioners, and policymakers