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The American Law Institute has tapped two well-known
privacy law
specialists to lead a new project designed to compile
information privacy law
principles into a single volume, the Restatement Third,
Information Privacy
Principles. Prof. Paul M. Schwartz of the University of California
Berkeley School of Law, in
Berkeley, Calif., and Prof. Daniel
Solove of the George Washington University Law School,
in Washington, have
agreed to lead the project.
Schwartz told BNA that the project is
designed to bring clarity to a
body of common law that has become a bewildering array of
conflicting and
overwhelming rules. Schwartz said that he and Solove will
attempt to draft a volume that
“is concrete enough to be explanatory but with abstract enough
[principles]
that we’d be good for ten to 15 years.”
Shannon
Duffy, director of
communications at ALI, told BNA that by the time the
group meets in the fall it
will have come up with an initial draft of at least some
portion of the overall
project. Duffy said the project team will be a balanced group
of about 35 to 40
privacy experts from academia, the courts, and industry. ALI’s
website for this
project is available under “Restatement Third, Information
Privacy Principles”
at
http://www.ali.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=projects.main.