Addressing the Harm of Total Surveillance: A Reply to Professor Neil Richards

14 Pages Posted: 27 Jun 2013

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Danielle Keats Citron

University of Virginia School of Law

David C. Gray

University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law

Date Written: June 26, 2013

Abstract

In his insightful article, "The Dangers of Surveillance," 126 Harvard Law Review 1934 (2013), Neil Richards offers a framework for evaluating the implications of government surveillance programs that is centered on protecting "intellectual privacy." Although we share his interest in recognizing and protecting privacy as a condition of personal and intellectual development, we worry in this essay that, as an organizing principle for policy, "intellectual privacy" is too narrow and politically fraught. Drawing on other work; we, therefore, recommend that judges, legislators, and executives focus, instead, on limiting the potential of surveillance technologies to effect programs of broad and indiscriminate surveillance.

Suggested Citation

Citron, Danielle Keats and Gray, David C., Addressing the Harm of Total Surveillance: A Reply to Professor Neil Richards (June 26, 2013). Harvard Law Review Forum, Vol. 126, p. 262, 2013, U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013-32, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2285775

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David C. Gray

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