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Bashir, Masooda Bashir, Masooda Allen, Anita L. Rowell, Arden Heald, Paul J 2023-08 application/pdf en text Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01 The student, Christopher Muhawe, accepted the attached license on 2023-06-23 at 16:33. The student, Christopher Muhawe, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2023-06-23 at 16:37. This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2023-06-30 at 09:37. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #19457 on 2023-12-04 at 17:18:06 Text eng https://hdl.handle.net/2142/121318 Copyright 2023 Christopher Muhawe An empirical study of privacy harms in data violation cases Muhawe, Christopher 2023-06-30 Privacy Data Harm Injury Article Iii Standing. Many statutes in the United States recognize that privacy violations cause harm in addition to some providing a private right of action to enforce privacy rights. However, scholars have conjectured that the judicial doctrine of Article III standing could create a procedural impediment to remedying privacy harms. Using a unique dataset, this research investigates the data privacy litigation landscape of the American federal courts considering the strict Article III injury-in-fact requirement. The results reveal a significant gap: close to 60% of the federal court cases from 2000 to 2020 were dismissed for failure to satisfy the strict injury-in-fact threshold. This empirical analysis thus reveals a significant gap between what the legislature intends for privacy protection to do (and what privacy statutes provide for on their face), and the actual landscape of privacy protection as interpreted by the courts. With this mismatch, the net losers are the data subjects. The ideals of personal privacy— which include rights to limited and controlled access to personal information— are imperiled with little to no legal recourse. J.S.D. Dissertation Law University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Law