"In our increasingly digital world, the balance between privacy and free speech is tenuous, at best. But we often overlook the important ways in which privacy is necessary to protect our cherished civil liberties of freedom of speech, thought and belief.
That's why free speech should almost always win out over privacy, says Neil M. Richards, JD, a privacy law expert at Washington University in St. Louis and author of the new book, "Intellectual Privacy: Rethinking Civil Liberties in the Digital Age," published Feb. 2 by Oxford University Press.
"I want people to realize that in building our digital world, we have choices," said Richards, professor of law at the School of Law, noting the importance of free speech to democratic societies."
- Date Published:02/03/2015
- Original Publication:Phys.org