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Daniel J. Solove
Born1972 (age 51–52)
Alma materWashington University in St. Louis (A.B.), Yale Law School (J.D.)
OccupationThe John Marshall Harlan Research Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School
Website[1]

Daniel J. Solove (/ˈslv/;[1] born 1972) is the Eugene L. and Barbara A. Bernard Professor of Intellectual Property and Technology Law at the George Washington University Law School.[2] He is well known for his academic work on privacy and for popular books on how privacy relates with information technology.[2]

Solove is one of the world's leading experts in privacy and data security law, having authored 5 books, 8 terxtbooks, and more than 90 articles on the topic. Solove has made the full text of many of his books freely available on the Social Science Research Network.[3]

Solove has long argued "that Congress or the Federal Trade Commission should prohibit companies from using SSNs (Social Security Numbers) as a means to verify identity."[4]

Solove has been quoted by the media outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, the Associated Press, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and NPR.[5] He is also a member of the organizing committee of the Privacy and Security Academy[6] and the Privacy Law Salon.[7]

In 2011 Tony Doyle wrote in The Journal of Value Inquiry that Solove "has established himself as one of the leading privacy theorists writing in English today."[8]

Selected publications

Popular Books:

  • Breached! Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve It ISBN 978-0190940553
  • Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security'' (2011) ISBN 978-0300172331
  • Understanding Privacy (2008) ISBN 978-0674035072
  • The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet *2007) ISBN 978-0300144222
  • The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age (2004) ISBN 978-0814740378

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