Data in Constructive Trust

For tomorrow’s class, I will be discussing the possibility of constructive trusts as a means to remedy the misuse of personal information.

Here is an optional article for you to read. The essay argues that a new common law tort called the ‘misuse of personal information’ should be introduced in the U.K., based on their jurisdiction’s recently recognized tort, ‘misuse of confidential information’.

Reining in the Data Traders: A Tort for the Misuse of Personal Information
by Sarah Ludington

http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/faculty_scholarship/2818/