Anita L. Allen

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Dismantling the “Black Opticon”: Privacy, Race, Equity, and Online Data-Protection Reform

African Americans suffer a discriminatory predicament, a “Black Opticon” of  panoptic oversurveillance, ban-optic exclusion and con-optic predation. The Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act, a federal Data Protection Act, and proposed FTC expansions are measured critically against imperatives of civil rights and a race-conscious African American Online Equity Agenda.