Digital Corporations are, first and foremost, organizations. Pretty big ones too. They develop their own esprit des corps, bureaucratize in peculiar ways, and function along vectors not immediately intelligible to the outside observer. Digital corporations are the key transmitter for external feedback and policy input. Therefore, to regulate and improve the informational economy we must better understand the organizational reality of digital corporations. This guest lecture takes a closer look at how these organizational features intersect with efforts to advance privacy.

Professor Ari Ezra Waldman of the University of California, Irvine shares insights from years of fieldwork, especially on the influence of organizational patterns on the handling of privacy at digital corporations.