In this publication professor Daniel J. Solove contends that although rights are an important component of privacy regulation, rights are often asked to do far more work than they are capable of doing.
After discussing these overarching reasons why rights are insufficient for the oversized role they currently play in privacy regulation, he discusses the common privacy rights and why each falls short of providing significant privacy protection. For each right, I propose broader structural measures that can achieve its underlying goals in a more systematic, rigorous, and less haphazard way.