William McGeveran

William McGeveran

Dean
William S. Pattee Professor of Law

Prof. McGeveran Tells MarketWatch About Value of Personal Data 

Dow Jones MarketWatch interviewed Prof. William McGeveran, an expert on data privacy, about the law’s struggle to define the monetary value of individual personal data and the harm caused when it is mishandled. As he summarized the difficult question: “Are privacy invasions wrong just because? Or are they only wrong when something bad happens as a result?”