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 […]
Samuelson Clinic Director, Fellow Participated at Computers, Freedom & Privacy Conference
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 […]
Location Information Privacy Project [“Geopriv”]
Type: Comments Year: 2001 Students worked on the issue of location information privacy. Their client, the Center for Democracy and Technology, is interested in strong, technology-neutral, privacy rules. They engaged in extensive research on both the regulatory and technical issues involved in wireless communication services and products and worked with the client to identify the […]
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 […]
Clinic Study Finds Many Companies Are Quietly Selling Personal Information to Third Parties
Type: Report Year: 2007 In a new study, Consumer Information Sharing: Where the Sun Still Don’t Shine, students and researchers at the Samuelson Clinic made requests for companies’ information sharing policies under SB 27, California’s “Shine the Light” Law. Enacted in 2003, SB 27 requires companies doing business with California residents to disclose their information […]
New Report Explores Californians’ Understanding of Privacy Online
Type: Report Year: 2008 In What Californians Understand About Privacy Online, Clinic Staff Attorney Chris Jay Hoofnagle and Research Specialist Jennifer King gauge Californians’ understanding of privacy policies and default rules in the online environment. The report features a representative survey of adults in the State (N=991). This telephonic survey of Spanish and English […]
User Choices and Regret: Understanding Users’ Decision Process about Consensually Acquired Spyware
Type: Research Paper Year: 2006 Clinic Director Deirdre Mulligan along with Nathaniel Good, Jens Grossklags, David Thaw, Aaron Perzanowski, and Joseph Konstan, authored a publication discussing spyware. The paper argues that many computer users are unaware that they have installed spyware due to incomplete information. End user license agreements (EULA) are poorly designed, making it […]
Amicus Brief for Google in Kelly v. Arriba Soft
Type: Brief Year: 2002 The Clinic submitted two amicus curiae briefs in an appeal to the Ninth Circuit in Kelly v. Arriba Soft, on behalf of the search engine Google to rehear the case. In affirming the District Court’s decision to impose liability for an image search engine’s links to “full-size images”, the original Ninth […]
Who Goes There? Authentication Through the Lens of Privacy
Type: Report Year: 2003 Clinic Director Deirdre Mulligan served on the Committee on Authentication Technologies and Their Privacy Implications for the National Research Council, which published the report “Who Goes There? Authentication Through the Lens of Privacy.” The report examines authentication technologies and their effects on privacy of those being authenticated. Authentication technologies are becoming […]
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 […]