What lawyers and business leaders miss when they think about “privacy "and why it costs them.
This article draws on a candid roundtable discussion between graduate students across Gen Z, Millennial, and Gen Alpha-adjacent cohorts. The conversation surfaces something that surveys and focus groups often miss: how data privacy functions in people’s daily lives, in their own words.
When lawyers think about protecting users, they often default to thinking about data breaches, consent mechanisms, and the various consumer privacy rights. When their clients’ users actually think about privacy, and they do think about it, they’re asking something else entirely: What's most convenient, and what's the worst case if my activity gets out? What will this reveal about me to the people in my life?
