Type: Presentation Year: 2007 Clinic senior staff attorney Chris Jay Hoofnagle will make two presentations (PDF) to the Federal Trade Commission’s workshop focusing on the use of the Social Security number. At the workshop, Hoofnagle will discuss synthetic identity theft, a practice where impostors create fictitious identities for financial gain. This practice is discussed in […]
Clinic Attorney to Present on SSN Use at FTC Workshop
Clinic co-releases report evaluating the effectiveness of the City of San Francisco’s Surveillance Camera Program
Type: Report Year: 2009 Today the Samuelson Clinic co-released with CITRIS a comprehensive report evaluating the effectiveness of the City of San Francisco’s Community Safety Camera program. The report, commissioned by the City and co-authored by CITRIS-affiliated researchers Jennifer King (Samuelson Clinic Research Specialist), Former Clinic Director and iSchool Professor Deirdre Mulligan, and Public Policy […]
Stopping Spyware at the Gate: A User Study of Privacy, Notice and Spyware
Type: Research Paper Year: 2005 Clinic Director Deirdre Mulligan, Nathan Good, Rachna Dhamija, Jens Grossklags, Steven Aronovitz, David Thaw, and Joseph Konstan conducted a study on spyware and privacy. The results of the study are discussed in ”Stopping Spyware at the Gate: A User Study of Privacy, Notice and Spyware.” Spyware has emerged as a […]
Open Resource for Open Source
Type: Clinical Project, Project Year: 2002 The Clinic has been gathering information from the open source community regarding its needs. Based on what open source developers have told us they need and the success of the Chilling Effects model, clinic students are developing a resource web site for open source developers that will provide […]
Memorandum from Electronic Frontier Foundation and the SLTPPC Regarding Technical Issues with Anonymization & Aggregation of Detailed Energy Usage Data as Methods for Protecting Customer Privacy
Type: Memorandum Year: 2013 Download pdf
Samuelson Clinic Released Paper on “Legal Issues Facing Election Officials in an Electronic-Voting World”
Type: Research Paper Year: 2007 As part of its continuing work on electronic voting, the Samuelson Clinic released Legal Issues Facing Election Officials in an Electronic-Voting World, an analysis of important legal issues that election officials face as they administer an election system in which electronic voting systems play an increasingly significant role. The paper, […]
Standards Project
Type: Research Paper Year: 2001 Students worked with John Morris (Director of the Internet Standards, Technology, and Policy Project) to contribute to the Internet Engineering Task Force(IETF), geopriv working group. The working group’s task is to identify and addresses the privacy, authorization, and integrity requirements that must be met in order to transfer geographic location […]
Stopping Spyware at the Gate: A User Study of Privacy, Notice and Spyware
Type: Research paper Year: 2005 Clinic Director Deirdre Mulligan, Nathan Good, Rachna Dhamija, Jens Grossklags, Steven Aronovitz, David Thaw, and Joseph Konstan conducted a study on spyware and privacy. The results of the study are discussed in ”Stopping Spyware at the Gate: A User Study of Privacy, Notice and Spyware.” Spyware has emerged as a […]
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 Spy with […]
Radio Frequency Identification and Privacy with Information Goods
Type: Research Paper, Presentation Year: 2004 Clinic Director Deirdre Mulligan, Nathan Good, David Molnar, Elizabeth Miles, Laura Quilter, USC Professor Jennifer Urban, and Berkeley Professor David Wagner presented Radio Frequency ID and Privacy with Information Goods at the 2004 Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society. The paper addresses privacy impacts of using radio frequency […]