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Brian N. Larson is associate professor of law at Texas A&M University's School of Law. He researches rhetoric and argumentation, especially in legal and professional communication. He focuses on rhetorical and argumentation theory in context and practice, using text-analytic, computational, and cognitive methods. Other research interests include the law of online contracts and empirical research methods. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and comes to Texas A&M after a 20-year career as an attorney and business executive. He teaches courses in legal rhetoric and communication.

Data privacy laws in the US protect profit but prevent sharing data for public good – people want the opposite

Cason Schmit, Brian N. Larson and Hye-Chung Kum are faculty at the school of public health and the law school at Texas A&M University with expertise in health information regulation, data science and online contracts. U.S. data protection laws often widely permit using data for profit but are more restrictive of socially beneficial uses. They wanted to ask a simple question: Do U.S. privacy laws actually protect data in the ways that Americans want? Using a national survey, we found that the public’s preferences are inconsistent with the restrictions imposed by U.S. privacy laws.

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Subjects: AI, Big Data, Digital Archives, Health, Healthcare, Information Management, KM, Privacy
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