Center for Technology Innovation
Darrell M. West
Vice President and Director - Governance Studies
Senior Fellow - Center for Technology Innovation
Douglas Dillon Chair in Governmental Studies
Cameron F. Kerry
Ann R. and Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellow - Governance Studies, Center for Technology Innovation
It was the first time that a president of the United States said we should have comprehensive commercial privacy legislation, and it started the process of framing how we should respond to data privacy in the digital era. Specifically, it created the “no surprises” rule, which is the notion that data collection, use, and sharing should be consistent with context and user expectations.