Type: Research Paper Year: 2003 Clinic Director Deirdre Mulligan put forth an article entitled Enforcing Privacy Rights Symposium 2002 “Introduction,” which was published in the Hastings Law Journal. The article discusses the 2002 Enforcing Privacy Rights Symposium, which discussed privacy concerns in the post-9/11 world. After the 2001 terrorist attacks, privacy concerns were shifted […]
Enforcing Privacy Rights Symposium 2002
Reasonable Expectations in Electronic Communications: A Critical Perspective on the Electronic Communications Privacy Act
Type: Research Paper Year: 2004 The George Washington Law Review published an article by Clinic Director Deirdre Mulligan entitled “Reasonable Expectations in Electronic Communications: A Critical Perspective on the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.” The article discusses the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (ECPA), which was passed by congress to protect privacy in the […]
Storing Our Lives Online: Expanded Email Storage Raises Complex Policy Issues
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 […]
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 […]