Privacy as Privilege - Livestream

This talk exposes a profound and growing injustice that major technology companies have propagated through every level of the judiciary under the guise of protecting data privacy. The Supreme Court has repeatedly proclaimed: “In our judicial system, the public has a right to every [person’s] evidence.” Yet, for over a decade, Facebook, GitHub, Google, Instagram, Microsoft, and Twitter have leveraged the Stored Communications Act (SCA) - a key data privacy law for the internet - to bar criminal defendants from subpoenaing the contents of another’s online communications, even when those communications could exonerate the wrongfully accused. I will argue that all of these decisions are wrong as a matter of binding Supreme Court doctrine and just policy.

Speaker: Rebecca Wexler, Berkeley School of Law

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