Type: Research paper Year: 2005 “Storing Our Lives Online: Expanded Email Storage Raises Complex Policy Issues” by Clinic Director Deirdre Mulligan, Ari Shwartz, and Indriana Mondal discusses privacy concerns in the new electronic age. Internet users store large amounts of personal data online without realizing that they are losing privacy protection by doing so. In […]
Storing Our Lives Online: Expanded Email Storage Raises Complex Policy Issues
Samuelson Clinic Students Assisted the Constitution Project in Preparing Guidelines for Video Surveillance
Type: Report Year: 2006 Samuelson Clinic Student Interns provided drafting and research assistance with to The Constitution Project‘s Liberty and Security Initiative on a report titled Guidelines for Public Video Surveillance: A Guide to Protecting Communities and Preserving Civil Liberties. The report provided practical assistance to state and local governments that have established, or […]
Clinic’s Electronic Voting Research Helped To Advance Election Integrity
Type: Report Year: 2007 Research conducted by Samuelson Clinic fellows and students played an important role in a groundbreaking audit just conducted in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, one of the country’s most troubled election jurisdictions. Cuyahoga County experienced serious procedural and technical problems with the administration of its elections in both the 2004 and 2006 election […]
Clinic Comments on Private Sector Use of the Social Security Number
Type: Comments Year: 2007 In comments to the Federal Trade Commission, the Samuelson Clinic argued that credit grantors are using the Social Security number (SSN) both as a record locator to identify individuals, but also as a password to authenticate them. A series of cases points to credit grantors approving impostors’ applications for new accounts […]
New Study Recommends Reforms for Security Breach Notification Laws
Type: Research Paper Year: 2007 A Clinic study of chief security officers finds that security breach notification laws, which require governments and businesses to inform the public about unauthorized access to personal information, have had profound effects on practices within companies. We found that breach notification laws drive information exchange between organizations, and within organizations […]
Samuelson Clinic Filed Amicus Brief in Hepting v. AT&T on behalf of People for the American Way Foundation
Type: Brief Year: 2007 The Samuelson Clinic submitted a brief Amicus Curiae on behalf of People for the American Way Foundation to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in the case of Hepting v. AT&T, the class action lawsuit accusing the telecom company of violating the law and privacy of its customers […]
Samuelson Clinic Director, Fellow Participated at Computers, Freedom & Privacy Conference
Type: Presentation Year: 2006 Samuelson Clinic Director Deirdre Mulligan and Clinic Fellow Jack Lerner participated in the 2006 Computers, Freedom & Privacy Conference from May 2-5 in Washington, DC. Professor Mulligan participated on a panel Thursday afternoon, May 4 about the proliferation of video surveillance in the United States and Europe entitled ” Surveillance: I […]
Samuelson Clinic Submitted Comments to U.S. Election Assistance Commission
Type: Comments Year: 2005 On September 30, 2005, the Samuelson Clinic submitted to the United States Election Assistance Commission a public comment on behalf of A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable and Transparent Elections (ACCURATE), and ACCURATE affiliates, regarding the proposed 2005 Voluntary Voting System Guidelines. ACCURATE is a multi-institution, interdisciplinary, academic research project […]
Clinic Researchers File Comment on Risk Asssessment with EAC
Type: Comments Year: 2008
Samuelson Clinic Director Testified Before Department of Homeland Security on Expectations of Privacy in Public Spaces
Type: Testimony Year: 2006 Samuelson Clinic Director and Clinical Professor of Law Deirdre Mulligan testified before the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee regarding expectations of privacy in public places. Professor Mulligan observed that public spaces support functions that democracies care about, that we are at a unique constitutional moment […]