Privacy & Information Security Law Blog

On May 10, 2013, CBS News interviewed two cybersecurity authorities to discuss the growing debate of privacy online. In the feature, entitled “Should there be a ‘right to be forgotten’ online?,” Lisa J. Sotto, partner and head of the Privacy and Data Security practice at Hunton & Williams LLP, talked about the problem of individuals’ rights to delete their online activity. She pointed out that the U.S. has no comprehensive online privacy law, and instead has a framework “comprised of a patchwork quilt of laws.”