Privacy Wiki

Privacy Wiki

(but not the only one)

• Privacy Wiki is organized around the Solove Taxonomy which breaks privacy into four broad categories ( information processing, information dissemination, collection, and invasion) and sixteen individual harms (or privacy violations). It currently includes United States Federal Laws as well as over three hundred State Laws. In addition to laws and regulations, you can find copious news stories of every type of privacy harm under the taxonomy.

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Solove Taxonomy

• Daniel Solove's taxonomy is the most comprehensive framework for privacy. His framework derived four categories of privacy harms:

INFORMATION PROCESSING	INFORMATION DISSEMINATION	COLLECTION	INVASION
Aggregation	Breach of Confidentiality	Surveillance	Intrusion
Insecurity	Disclosure	Interrogation	Decisional Interference
Identification	Exposure
Secondary Use	Increased Accessibility
Exclusion	Blackmail
	Appropriation
	Distortion

To learn more about Solove Taxonomy, please visit our most impressive Taxonomypage.

Personal Information

• Privacy Wiki indicates laws and regulations using categories of information. The following are categories of information relating to an individual, whether it relates to their private, professional or public life. Categories are not exclusive. Data may transcend multiple information categories:

INTERNAL	EXTERNAL	TRACKING	SOCIAL	FINANCIAL	HISTORICAL
Preference	Identifying	Computer Device	Professional	Account	History
Authenticating	Ethnicity	Contact	Criminal	Ownership
Knowledge & Belief	Sexual	Location	Public Life	Transactional
	Behavioral		Family	Credit
	Demographic		Social Network
	Medical and Health		Communication
	Physical Characteristics

To learn more about Personal Information, please visit Personal Information page.

United States Privacy Laws

• Federal Laws
• State Laws

Latest Updates

• Senate Bill 322
• MEDICAL RECORDS PRIVACY
• Automakers prevail in lawsuit alleging data collection violated Washington Privacy Act
• Judge advances lawsuit claiming Meta pixel tracking on hospital websites violated HIPAA
• Lawsuit alleges Old Dominion violated Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act
• CVS, Kroger, and Rite Aid Disclose Patient Prescriptions Without a Warrant
• Facebook and Cambridge Analytica Privacy Scandal
• Health Data Under Scrutiny: The UK's Review of Privacy in Period and Fertility Apps
• Social Media and Data Security: Understanding the Implications of Montana's TikTok Ban
• Navigating International Data Privacy: The EU-US Data Transfer Conflict and Facebook

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All Privacy Articles

• Articles by country

• Articles by year

• Tech Giants

• Articles by types of personal information

• Articles by types of high risk groups

• Articles by types of secondary consequences

Volunteer Editors

While most state laws that touch on privacy issues are already in the Wiki, volunteers will keep the states current.

To learn more about how to join the Privacy Wiki as State Editors, please reach out to our Chief Legal Editor. We are excited to see you as a Legal State Editor in the Wiki!

We hope to expand into other jurisdictions (such as the EU) in the near future!

Discussion group

We also have a privacy wiki discussion group! Please go to http://lists.privacy.wiki/listinfo.cgi/privacywiki-privacy.wiki to join. This discussion group is used to ask questions, ask for help (e.g. if you're an editor), share ideas, e.g. on best practices for editing the Wiki.

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