Privacy: Regulating Data in the Private Sector

Analyzes proposals to regulate private businesses' use of information about their consumers, assessing their economic impact on small business and consumers, their first amendment implications, and more.

Privacy and Human Rights: Comparing the United States to Europe, by Solveig Singleton, December 1, 1999.

Comments Submitted in the FTC/NTIA Workshop on Online Profiling, by Solveig Singleton, October 18, 1999.

Self-Regulation: Regulatory Fad or Market Forces?, by Solveig Singleton, May 7, 1999.

Comments on HHS Medical Privacy, by Solveig Singleton, Cato Daily Commentary, October 13, 1999.

Innovation vs. Privacy, by Solveig Singleton, Cato Daily Commentary, August 16, 1999

Can You Trust the Ministry of Privacy?, by Solveig Singleton, Cato Daily Commentary, August 25, 1998.

Privacy vs. Free Speech, (realaudio file of speech) Solveig Singleton and Stanton McCandlish, CFP98, The Eighth Annual conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy, February 18-20, 1998.

Privacy as Censorship: A Skeptical View of Proposals to Regulate Privacy in the Private Sector, by Solveig Singleton, Policy Analysis No. 295, January 22, 1998.

Mailing-List Chicken Littles, by Solveig Singleton, Cato Daily Commentary, November 4, 1997. The Benefits of free trade in mailing lists.

Data Collection as Free Speech, by Solveig Singleton, CMC Magazine, September 1997.

Contrived Distinctions: The Doctrine of Commerical Speech in First Amendment Jurisprudence, by Jonathan W. Emord, Policy Analysis No. 161, September 23, 1991. Critique of the Commercial Speech Doctrine.