The Economist reports that 2018 will be remembered as the year that privacy law started to catch up to the internet and began replacing long-held beliefs of how information is collected and shared. Starting with the Supreme Court ruling in Carpenter v. United States and the implementation of the EU General Data Protection Regulation, the article states that the two events help to support “a growing transatlantic consensus emerging on privacy in the digital age,” adding, “both legal regimes now exhibit a growing awareness of how linked privacy is to other well-recognised legal harms such as chilling effects on free expression or discrimination against individuals.”
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