Lindsey Barrett on Data Privacy & Information Fiduciaries

In this episode, Lindsey Barrett, a staff attorney and teaching fellow at the Georgetown University Law Center Institute for Public Representation Communications & Technology Clinic, discusses her article "Confiding in Con Men: U.S. Privacy Law, the GDPR, and Information Fiduciaries," which was published in the Seattle University Law Review. Barrett begins by explaining how data privacy is regulated in the United States, especially by the Federal Trade Commission. She compares it to how data privacy is regulated in the European Union under the General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR. And she introduces an alternative paradigm for data privacy regulation by treating data custodians as "information fiduciaries." She explains how this fiduciary relationship would work and why it might be preferable to alternative paradigms. Barrett is on Twitter at @LAM_Barrett.This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Associate Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.