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73 Ala. L. Rev. 47 (2021-2022)
"Slack" in the Data Age

handle is hein.journals/bamalr73 and id is 57 raw text is: SLACK IN THE DATA AGE Shu-Yi Oei & Diane M. Ring INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................... ...49 I. SLACK: THE INFORMAL LATITUDE TO FALL SHORT .............................54 A . S lack ...........................................................................................................54 B. A Taxonomy of Slack ................................................................................. 57 1. PrioritiZation of Scarce Enforcement Resources ................................. 58 2. Lack of Information.............................................................................59 3. Deliberate Nonenforcement of Imperfect Laws.................................. 60 4. E xercise of M ery .................................................................................63 5. E xecutive Politics .................................................................................64 C. The Bounded Case for Slack....................................................................67 1. A Constraint on Too Much Law.........................................................67 2. A Constraint on Government Incursions into the Personal........ 68 3. A Second Space for Substantive Debate....................69 II. THE IMPACT OF DATA ON SLACK .................................................................70 A . U biquitous D ata.........................................................................................71 1. A Wide Range of Topical Categories....................................................73 2. Myriad Collectors .................................................................................78 3. C hanging U ses.....................................................................................79 4. Changing Methods of Collection........................................................ 81 B. Data's Potential Impacts on Slack...........................................................82 1. L ess Slack....................................................................................... 82 2. Inconsistent Impacts of Data on Slack............................................. 84 3. The Limits of Sunshine and Scrutiny .............................................. 87 4. New Versions of Targeted Enforcement........................................... 88 5. Changing and Directing Individual Conduct.................................... 89 6. Calling Law's Design into Question................................................. 90 III. MANAGING SLACK IN THE DATA AGE .................................................... 91 A. Managing the Slack-Data Relationship .......................................................91 1. A Seemingly Obvious Four-Part Framework ................. 91 2. ProblematiZing the Framework........................................................ 92 B. Concrete Policy for the Data Age ............................................................. 94 1. Limiting Data Collection and Storage ..................................................95 2. Data Architecture and Data Silos....................................................96 3. B roader Strategies.................................................................................99 47

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