
Neil Richards
Cognoscenti contributor
Neil Richards is the Koch Distinguished Professor in Law at Washington University in St. Louis, where he teaches courses on privacy and technology and directs the Cordell Institute. He is the author of "Why Privacy Matters" and "Intellectual Privacy: Rethinking Civil Liberties for the Digital Age."
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Big tech is hungry for consumer data. Mass. needs privacy legislation now
The heart of the privacy bill that the Massachusetts legislature is now considering is a simple but firm rule that companies should collect and use only the personal information that...