Yafit Lev-Aretz

Yafit Lev-Aretz is a Research Fellow at the Information Law Institute, New York University Law School.

Yafit Lev-Aretz

The recent Facebook-Cambridge Analytica chaos has ignited a fire of awareness, bringing the risks of today’s data surveillance culture to the forefront of mainstream conversations.

Facebook and the perils of a personalized choice architecture
Privacy

Free choice must be free

2:00 pm PDT • June 29, 2017

It is time to have a serious conversation about the limits of choice architecture online. We should acknowledge legitimate business interests alongside the long-established practice of choice architecture. At the…

Free choice must be free

The ACLU reported last year that law enforcement teamed up with Geofeedia, a software company that uses social media data to track and monitor protesters. Many were outraged. Facebook and…

If it talks like a government and acts like a government, it must be a tech giant