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Daniel J. Solove

Daniel J. Solove (/ˈsoʊloʊv/; born 1972) is the John Marshall Harlan Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. He is one of the world’s leading expert in information privacy law and is well known for his academic work on privacy and for popular books on how privacy relates with information technology. His deconstruction of the “I’ve got nothing to hide” position, and related justifications for government surveillance, has been regarded as the best brief analysis of the issue.Daniel Solove is also the founder of TeachPrivacy, a privacy and security training company.In addition, he is co-reporter of the American Law Institute's Restatement of Information Privacy Principles.Professor Solove writes in the areas of information privacy law, cyberspace law, law and literature, jurisprudence, legal pragmatism, and constitutional theory. He teaches information privacy law, criminal procedure, criminal law, and law and literature. He has written 9 books and more than 50 law review articles in the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, Columbia Law Review, NYU Law Review, Michigan Law Review, U. Pennsylvania Law Review, U. Chicago Law Review, California Law Review, Duke Law Journal, and many others.Daniel Solove also blogs at LinkedIn as one of its “Influencers.” His blog has more than 600,00 followers as of the editing of this page.Solove has been quoted by the media outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, the Associated Press, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and NPR.In 2011, Tony Doyle wrote in the The Journal of Value Inquiry that Solove "has established himself as one of the leading privacy theorists writing in English today."