Colorado Law Talk: Privacy at the Margins

In this talk, Professor Skinner-Thompson drawed from his new book, Privacy at the Margins, to explain how privacy can serve as a form of expressive resistance to government and corporate surveillance regimes. Limited legal protections for privacy leave minority communities vulnerable to concrete injuries and violence when their information is exposed. Professor Skinner-Thompson demonstrated why efforts undertaken by vulnerable groups, including queer folks, women, and racial and religious minorities, to protect their privacy should be entitled to constitutional protection under the First Amendment and related equality provisions. By examining the ways even limited privacy can enrich and enhance our lives at the margins in material ways, Professor Skinner-Thompson showed how privacy can be transformed into an anti-subordination legal tool.

Event Details

Speakers	Scott Skinner-Thompson, Associate Professor of Law