Paul Ohm, an information-privacy expert at the University of Colorado Law School who was hired as a senior policy adviser to the Federal Trade Commission, takes Solove's argument a step further in coining the term "Database of Ruin".
Even as data privacy experts aren't so sure.
Susan Freiwald, an expert in cyberlaw and information privacy at the University of San Francisco School of Law, said that companies like Facebook can keep the government accountable in instances like this.
Matwyshyn, a privacy expert who studies corporate law and information technology, last year had a first-hand experience with lack of information about a company's security measures.
Deven McGraw, a Washington, D.C., health privacy expert and lawyer, says consumers may be surprised to learn that all the information they upload is most likely not covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
One privacy expert who was briefed on the effort is Larry Ponemon, the chairman of the Ponemon Institute, an information-management research and consulting firm.
She is also not a privacy expert.
This presents "perhaps the most difficult privacy issues in all of human history," says Edward Felten, a privacy expert at Princeton University.
John Wilbanks, a privacy expert at Sage Bionetworks in Seattle, Washington, says that while cutting-edge techniques like homomorphic encryption will improve privacy, keeping genetic information completely secure is impossible.
Privacy is a term that incorporates varied components including physical privacy, communications privacy, and information privacy.
