The Angle: Why Not Be Scared? Edition

After a group of researchers scraped up a dataset using open profiles on OkCupid, they argued that the data was "public" and therefore fair game. Not so, writes professor of law Woodrow Hartzog. "This justification is fundamentally wrong. Not just because we should be able to expect a certain amount of privacy in public, but because, despite frequency of use and seeming self-evidence, we actually don't even know what the term public even means," Hartzog argues. "It has no set definition in privacy law or policy."