ASSOCIATE DEAN DARYL LIM FEATURED IN REUTERS COMMENTARY ON APPLE SIRI PRIVACY SETTLEMENT
January 2025 — Associate Dean Daryl Lim was recently featured in Jenna Greene’s Reuters article, “What’s a Consumer’s Privacy Worth? About $20.” The piece examines the implications of Apple’s $95 million settlement over allegations that its Siri voice assistant recorded private conversations without consent.
In the article, Professor Lim highlights how current legal frameworks often treat privacy as a consumer choice rather than a fundamental right. He notes, “Our market-based framework treats privacy preferences as individual consumer choices — like selecting between products — rather than recognizing them as fundamental rights. Deep-pocketed companies may see privacy lawsuits as little more than a rounding error on their balance sheets.”
The article also features commentary from privacy law expert Danielle Citron, who discusses the difficulty of quantifying intangible privacy harms and the broader implications for consumer autonomy and trust.
Read the full article here.
Daryl Lim is the H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law at Penn State Dickinson Law. He is also the Associate Dean for Research and Innovation and Founding Director of the Intellectual Property (IP) Law and Innovation Initiative. At the university level, he is a co-hire at the Institute of Computational and Data Sciences and an affiliate at the Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence.
Professor Lim is an award-winning author, observer, and commentator on national and global trends in IP and competition policy and how they influence and are influenced by law, technology, economics, and politics. He helps policymakers, attorneys, corporate counsel, scholars, and the public understand the world around them. He is a founding member of the Global IP Alliance and its local chapters in Pennsylvania and Illinois. In addition, he serves as Co-Chair of the University Education Committee in the US IP Alliance. In December 2022, the American Law Institute elected Professor Lim to its membership based on demonstrated excellence and outstanding professional achievement. In 2023, the US Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission recognized him as “a leading expert in antitrust law and economics” and the IAM Strategy 300, a guide to the industry pioneers with “exceptional skill sets, as well as profound insights into the development, creation, and management of IP value,” named him to its World’s Leading IP Strategists 2023 list. In 2024, he was appointed to the consultative group advising the United Nations Secretary General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence.