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49 Syracuse J. Int'l L. & Com. 41 (2021-2022)
Your Data as a Weapon: How TikTok Captures a Security Crisis

handle is hein.journals/sjilc49 and id is 51 raw text is: YOUR DATA AS A WEAPON: HOW TIKTOK CAPTURES A SECURITY CRISIS Christopher Waters* I. Introduction In 1890, Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis published a law review piece which many refer to as The Right to be Let Alone, a title of intense relevance over one-hundred years later.' Privacy can act as the last form of control an individual has against social groups, companies, or governments. As suggested by a litany of acclaimed scholars, privacy is at the core of personal autonomy. Emphasizing this connection between privacy and autonomy, in The Right of the People, Justice Douglas stated, much of this liberty of which we boast comes down to the right of privacy.2 However, privacy is at risk of erosion due to a variety of causes. With the advent of the digital age in which individuals, corporations, and governments have unfettered communication and access to information, the degradation of this deeply inherent right has increased. The globe has reached a period of unprecedented connectivity by nearly every measure. Trade, information-sharing, and espionage are all supercharged by the digital revolution. With the Internet, individual privacy hangs in the balance, and both individuals and states should be concerned. Personal data has become a product unto itself, much like how tangible products can be used as currency, tools, or weapons, so too can an individual's information. This Note analyzes critical perspectives on data through an international security lens. First, it introduces basic organizations * Syracuse University College of Law, J.D. Candidate, Class of 2022. The author extends his thanks to his family for their loving support during the most rigorous portion of his young life. Further, he offers his sincerest thanks to Professor Laurie Hobart for not only her advisement and wealth of knowledge on this Note, but her ability to encourage him to achieve successes he never thought possible. 'Louis Brandeis & Samuel Warren, The Right to Privacy, 4 HARV. L. REv. 193, 195 (1890). 2 WILLIAM DOUGLAS, THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE 94-113 (1958).

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