Personal Environmental Information: The Promise and Perils of the Emerging Capacity to Identify Individual Environmental Harms

Authors

Katrina Fischer Kuh, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Vanderbilt Law Review

Publication Date

11-2012

Abstract

The article discusses personal environmental information, privacy rights, and the possibility of identifying individual environmental harms as of November 2012. Emerging technologies are addressed in relation to customer opt-out and privacy policies, as well as the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Radio frequency identification (RFID) chips and geographic information systems (GIS) technology are mentioned, along with Global Positioning System (GPS) devices and U.S. environmental law.

Recommended Citation

Katrina Fischer Kuh, Personal Environmental Information: The Promise and Perils of the Emerging Capacity to Identify Individual Environmental Harms, 65 Vand. L. Rev. 1565 (2012)
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