Professor Ryan Calo of the University of Washington School of Law was recently interviewed by CBC Radio—the Canadian analog of National Public Radio (NPR)—about his forthcoming article Digital Market Manipulation to be published by The George Washington Law Review in 2014.
In his interview, Professor Calo discusses the future of what he refers to as “digital market manipulation,” in which emerging technologies may make it possible to market based on the vulnerabilities of consumers. By updating the framework for market manipulation to include efforts by companies to target consumer frailties at an individual level through technological advances, Calo exposes the limits of current consumer protection law and reveals concrete economic and privacy harms that regulators will be hard-pressed to ignore.
A full recording of Professor Calo’s interview with CBC Radio can be found here.
