As AI continues to advance, there is an opportunity to use personal information to aid the development of new tools that can lead to better health care, education, and economic advancement. However, outdated laws complicate our ability to utilize personal information for critical advancements.

A new op-ed by Kevin Frazier, an adjunct research fellow at the Cato Institute, argues that we must reform these outdated state and federal laws to give the American people a choice in how their personal data is used, writing in part:

“The deeper principle here is informational self-determination. Just as the First Amendment protects our right to speak and listen, we should have the right to disclose or withhold our own information. Both rest on the same constitutional value: personal autonomy as a safeguard of democratic life.”

To speak with Frazier further on data privacy, contact Christopher Tarvardian.