sichlerk – Professor Karen Sichler

Final Thoughts

While I have been working towards completing my chapter on the growing issue of digital privacy rights in the United States, this part of the process was illuminating. Prior to…

Drafts with AI – Part 3

For the final section of the chapter on AI and privacy, I wrote the following prompt to elicit Perplexity Pro's suggestions: Write the next section of the textbook chapter on…

Drafts with AI – Part 2

In this installment, I gave Perplexity Pro the following prompt: Please write the body of a chapter on AI and privacy for a textbook titled Digital Rights and Privacy in…

Drafts with AI – Part 1

Throughout this semester, I dove into learning more about the legal and technological realities (?) of artificial intelligence. I have buried myself in the research to the point I am…

I let Perplexity AI Take a Stab

What follows is the first draft as statistically calculated by Perplexity AI. Artificial Intelligence and Privacy: A New Digital Paradigm The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) has fundamentally transformed…

Euorpean Data Protections: A standard for Worldwide protections or just a step in the right direction?

Introduction Data protection in the European Union began decades before the passage of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2016 as I discussed in my previous post. Shoshana Zuboff,…

When is it my turn to be forgotten?: The Evolution of Data Protections in Europe

23 Feb 202524 Feb 2025

Introduction On November 4 1950, the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms was signed by the twelve (12) members states. Starting with the Universal Declaration of…

First in the Nation: California’s Consumer Privacy Act

Introduction California became the first state to establish digital privacy protections in 2018. However, it was not a state legislator or the governor who sought to protect their constituents. Instead,…

Whatcha Doin’ With My Data: Privacy on the American Frontier

8 Feb 202510 Feb 2025

Introduction The New York State Attorney General, along with 18 other states, filed suit against President Donald J. Trump and Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent in the United States…

AI & Privacy

3 Feb 20257 Feb 2025

It was not a given that we were not going to own our personal digital/data outputs. As with as new technological innovations and the often unintended, but accompanying, phenomenon, we…