Latham & Watkins Forum—Law Enforcement Has Your Personal Data

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Federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies are collecting, retaining, and using (CRU) vast troves of personal data. Agencies purchase much of this information from private data brokers. They also vacuum it up themselves, employing license plate readers, facial recognition software, social media and location tracking tools, and more. Those who adopt these tools argue data CRU can make us safer. But the tools also pose huge risks for individual security and civil liberty. We are seeing this today not only in federal immigration raids, but federal monitoring of protestors. Civil liberties groups warn that states with restrictive abortion laws may try to compel data disclosure to pursue abortion prosecutions, and there has been some evidence of that.  At this Forum, participants will discuss the balance between law enforcement effectiveness and data privacy. Among the questions they’ll address: What are the public safety benefits of this law enforcement data CRU? What are the risks? What can be done to protect personal data from ready acquisition or misuse by law enforcement? Is the Constitution of any help here? Do we need new laws, and what would those look like? We have a remarkable panel to discuss these issues—and will have plenty of time for your questions.

• Alvaro Bedoya, Senior Advisor, American Economic Liberties Project; Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission, 2022–25; Founding Director, Center on Privacy and Technology, Georgetown University Law Center
• Danielle K. Citron, Professor of Law; Inaugural Director, LawTech Center, University of Virginia School of Law; Author, The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age
• Dan Haley, Chief Legal Officer, Flock Safety

Moderator 

• Barry Friedman, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law; Founder and Faculty Director, Policing Project, NYU Law