Privacy by Regulation
Giving the closing keynote at this year’s Amsterdam Privacy Conference, Professor Mayer-Schönberger talked emphatically about the need for new mechanisms protecting privacy more effectively especially in light of Big Data. Contracting his view against traditional approaches, such as privacy through individual rights and privacy by design, Mayer-Schönberger suggested that privacy needed to be protected through direct regulation, ex ante risk assessments, and stringent enforcement.