Data Privacy: From Arthur Miller To Edward Snowden

Data privacy concerns, proposals, and laws (and violations of them) are all around us these days:

• Edward Snowden's disclosures of NSA data collection led Congress to replace provisions of the post-9/11 the Patriot Act with the more privacy-friendly USA Freedom Act.
• Data-use fumbles by spotlight companies like Uber have led to major public controversies and significant voluntary reforms, such as those in Hogan Lovells' "Review and Assessment of Uber's Privacy Program."
• Widely publicized data breaches of companies like Target and Sony have highlighted the vulnerability of business data.
• President Obama has proposed a new Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights.
• The Global Commission on Internet Governance recently warned that governments and citizens around the world need to develop a new "social compact for the digital age," including limits on government data collection and greater transparency for the market in "collecting, centralizing, integrating and analyzing