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 are […]
Samuelson Clinic Students Assisted the Constitution Project in Preparing Guidelines for Video Surveillance
Samuelson Clinic Researcher Presented Work on RFID Technology at O’Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference
Type: Presentation Year: 2006 Last week at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego, California, Jennifer King, Masters Candidate at UC Berkeley’s School of Information and a Samuelson Clinic Researcher, discussed the risks and benefits of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). Ms. King’s talk built on her work with the clinic researching RFID technology and […]
geopriv Requirements, co-authored with Jorge Cuellar, John B. Morris, Jr., Jon Peterson, and James Polk, Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Internet-Drafts, The Internet Society
Type: Research Paper Year: 2001 Location-based services, navigation applications, emergency services, management of equipment in the field, and other location-dependent services need geographic information about a target (such as a user, resource or other entity). There is a need to securely gather and transfer location information for location services, while at the same time protecting […]
Threat Analysis of the geopriv Protocol, co-authored with M. Danley, J. Morris, and J. Peterson, Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Internet-Drafts, The Internet Society
Type: Research Paper Year: 2003 This provided some analysis of threats against the geopriv protocol architecture. It Focused on protocol threats, threats that result from the storage of data by entities in the architecture, and threats posed by the abuse of information yielded by geopriv. Some security properties that meet these threats are enumerated as […]
Samuelson Clinic Released Paper on Legal, Technical, and Software Interface Design Issues Related to Spyware
Type: Research Paper, Presentation Year: 2005 The Samuelson Clinic recently released a paper reviewing the legal, technical, and software interface design issues related to spyware and its installation by users. Spyware is software which monitors user actions, gathers personal data, and/or displays advertisements to users. While some spyware is installed surreptitiously, a surprising amount is […]
Sony Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998
Type: Brief Year: 2001 The Clinic submitted two amicus briefs on behalf of the Internet Archive, the Prelinger Archive and Project Gutenberg supporting petitioner Eric Eldred’s challenge to the Sony Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998, arguing that retroactively extending copyrights defeats the intellectual property clause’s purpose in incentivizing new creative works. The […]
Memorandum from Electronic Frontier Foundation and the SLTPPC Regarding Legal Considerations for Smart Grid Energy Sharing
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Ubiquitous Computing: RFID and Information Goods
Type: Research Project Year: 2003 Manufacturers, retailers, and libraries across the nation are interested in installing a new technology called Radio Frequency Identification to help them manage their inventories. However, using RFID may make it easy to invade personal privacy by collecting facts about individual purchase, reading, video rental, and book borrowing habits. The technology […]
Privacy in the Digital Age: Work in Progress
Type: Research Paper Year: 1999 “Privacy in the Digital Age: Work in Progress” by Clinic Director Deirdre Mulligan puts forth growing concerns about privacy and the internet. The law review article states that although the internet has made it easier to spread information, individuals are still hesitant to participate due to concerns about privacy. Because […]
Your Place or Mine?: Privacy Concerns and Solutions for Server and Client-side Storage of Personal Information
Type: Research Paper Year: 2000 “Your Place or Mine?: Privacy Concerns and Solutions for Server and Client-side Storage of Personal Information,” co-authored by Clinic Director Deirdre Mulligan and Ari Schwartz, addresses how companies can better serve their clients when it comes to privacy. Many companies allow consumers to store their personal information online in their […]