The Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic at UC Berkeley Law provides an opportunity for law students and graduate students to represent clients and conduct interdisciplinary research.

Recent Clinic Projects and Research

Report Details Californians' Understanding of Privacy Offline

A new survey research report performed by UC-Berkeley’s Survey Research Office for the Samuelson Clinic, finds that Californians’ have a significant “knowledge gap” concerning rules for selling personal information offline.  read more »

ACCURATE Submits Comments on the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

May  5,  2008 

A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable and Transparent Elections (ACCURATE) submitted public comments today to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission on their draft Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG), urging the Commission to adopt certain key features of the draft.  read more »

The Latest From the Clinic Blog

CFP '08 is coming up!

Submitted by aburstein on April 30, 2008 - 5:10pm.

The 2008 Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference is just a few weeks away: it’ll be held May 20-23 in New Haven, CT.  read more »

US e-Passport Insecurity

Submitted by Jen King on March 26, 2008 - 3:05pm.

According to the Washington Times, the Government Printing Office has been outsourcing the creation of e-Passport covers, which contain the contactless smart card chip (a.k.a. RFID chip) and antenna, to companies in Europe and Thailand. Apparently the GPO did this due to cost concerns, and it’s paid handsomely: over $100 million in profits claims the Times, due to the huge mark-up.  read more »


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