Abstract

Differential privacy research has coalesced around a relatively narrow conceptualization of data privacy, motivated by provable guarantees and impossibility theorems discussed earlier in this book. Outside of this literature, though, privacy law scholars have long studied the impacts of large-scale data processing systems on privacy in a broader set of social and political contexts. This research area encompasses numerous disciplines, including not only law but also political science, social sciences, economics, philosophy, and public policy. In this chapter, we discuss the intersection of DP and privacy law scholarship, namely how these different perspectives on privacy influence each other.