Daniel J. Solove

Daniel J. Solove (/ˈsoʊloʊv/; born 1972) is the John Marshall Harlan Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. He is one of the world’s leading experts in information privacy law and is well known for his academic work on privacy and for popular books on how privacy relates with information technology. His deconstruction of the “I’ve got nothing to hide” position, and related justifications for government surveillance, has been regarded as the best brief analysis of the issue.
Daniel Solove is also the founder of TeachPrivacy, a privacy and security training company.
In addition, he is co-reporter of the American Law Institute's Restatement of Information Privacy Principles. Further, he is a member of the organizing committee of the Privacy and Security Forum and the Privacy Law Salon.
Professor Solove writes in the areas of information privacy law, cyberspace law, law and literature, jurisprudence, legal pragmatism, and constitutional theory. He teaches information privacy law, criminal procedure, criminal law, and law and literature. He has written 9 books and more than 50 law review articles in the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, Columbia Law Review, NYU Law Review, Michigan Law Review, U. Pennsylvania Law Review, U. Chicago Law Review, California Law Review, Duke Law Journal, and many others.
Daniel Solove also blogs at LinkedIn as one of its “Influencers.” His blog has more than 900,000 followers as of the editing of this page.
Solove has been quoted by the media outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, the Associated Press, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and NPR.
In 2011, Tony Doyle wrote in the The Journal of Value Inquiry that Solove "has established himself as one of the leading privacy theorists writing in English today."

Books:

• Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff between Privacy and Security (Yale University Press 2011)
• Understanding Privacy (Harvard University Press 2008)
• The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet (Yale University Press 2007)
• The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age (NYU Press 2004)

Text Books:

• Information Privacy Law (Aspen Publishing, 4th ed. 2012) (with Paul M. Schwartz)
• Privacy Law Fundamentals (IAPP, 2nd edition 2013) (with Paul M. Schwartz)
• Privacy and the Media (Aspen Publishing, 1st ed. 2009) (with Paul M. Schwartz)
• Privacy, Information, and Technology (Aspen Publishing, 3rd ed. 2012) (with Paul M. Schwartz)

Journal articles:

• The FTC and the New Common Law of Privacy 114 Columbia Law Review 583 (2014) (with Woodrow Hartzog)
• Privacy Self-Management and the Consent Dilemma 26 Harvard Law Review 1880 (2013)
• The PII Problem: Privacy and a New Concept of Personally Identifiable Information 86 New York University Law Review 1814 (2011) (with Paul M. Schwartz)
• "I've Got Nothing to Hide" and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy 44 San Diego Law Review 745 (2007)
• The First Amendment as Criminal Procedure 84 New York University Law Review 112 (2007)
• Privacy's Other Path: Recovering the Law of Confidentiality 96 Georgetown Law Journal 123 (2007) (with Neil M. Richards)
• Reconstructing Electronic Surveillance Law 72 George Washington Law Review 1264 (2004)
• Digital Dossiers and the Dissipation of Fourth Amendment Privacy 75 Southern California Law Review 1083 (2002)
• Conceptualizing Privacy 90 California Law Review 1087 (2002)
• Privacy and Power: Computer Databases and Metaphors for Information Privacy 53 Stanford Law Review 1393 (2001)
• Access and Aggregation: Public Records, Privacy, and the Constitution 86 Minnesota Law Review 1137 (2002)
• 5 Myths About Privacy Washington Post (June 13, 2013)