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Professors James Nehf and Nicolas Terry commented for a story in the Spring 2016 issue of the Indiana University Alumni Magazine titled “Life in the Data Lane.” Many Americans disclose their whereabouts, shopping habits and preferences, and personal opinions multiple times a day, and the costs and benefits of such disclosures are tough to tease out, the professors note.

“It’s a real conundrum of costs and benefits,” Professor Terry said in the story. “The more liquid we make the data, the more benefits we’re doing to get, but also the more privacy and security costs.”

Free email accounts and internet searches are in fact not free when one considers the data being collected by these kinds of vendors, Professor Nehf said in the piece. “We are paying for them with our data, but we don’t have any control over where that data goes,” he said.

Professor Nehf is a nationally recognized expert in consumer law privacy. He is a Cleon H. Foust Fellow and a John S. Grimes Fellow at IU McKinney.

Professor Terry is the Hall Render Professor of Law and executive director of the Hall Center for Law and Health. He was invited by the White House to take part in the Precision Medicine Initiative Summit in February 2016. He also is a member of the Health IT Consumer Workgroup. His research interests lie primarily at the intersection of medicine, law, and information technology. His recent scholarship has dealt with health privacy, social media and health, big data, and health care fragmentation. He started the podcast, “The Week in Health Law” with Professor Frank Pasquale of the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. The podcast is available for download at iTunes, and PodBean, and can be listened to at Stitcher Radio. He is one of the permanent bloggers at HealthLawProf and at Harvard Law School’s Bill of Health.  His recent publications are available on the Social Science Research Network, and he can be followed on Twitter @nicolasterry.