Type: Report Year: 2008 A new survey research report performed by UC Berkeley’s Survey Research Center for the Samuelson Clinic finds that Californians have a significant “knowledge gap” concerning rules for selling personal information offline. A representative sample of Californians were asked whether businesses could sell personal information in a range of offline contexts; […]
Report Details Californians’ Understanding of Privacy Offline
Samuelson Clinic Survey Finds Strong Support for Privacy of Location Data
Type: Report Year: 2008 While law enforcement increasingly locates individuals by gaining access to wireless phone records, new survey data commissioned by the Samuelson Clinic finds that a supermajority of Californians supports judicial intervention and informing suspects before law enforcement acquires retrospective (historical) location data on individuals from wireless phone companies. A majority of Californians […]
Samuelson Clinic Researcher Presents Case Study on the Adoption of RFID Technology in the US e-Passport
Type: Research Paper Year: 2007 Samuelson Clinic research specialist Jennifer King presented “Embedded RFID and Everyday Things: A Case Study of the Security and Privacy Risks of the U.S. e-Passport” at the IEEE-RFID conference in Dallas, Texas. The study, co-authored by Ph.D student Marci Meingast and Clinic Director Deirdre K. Mulligan, presented a case study […]
IDs – Not That Easy: Questions About Nationwide Identity Systems
Type: Report Year: 2002 Clinic Director Deirdre Mulligan served on the Committee on Authentication Technologies and Their Privacy Implications for the National Research Council, which published the report “IDs – Not That Easy: Questions About Nationwide Identity Systems.” The report discusses whether there is a need for nationwide identity systems in the post-9/11 world. It […]
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 […]
Implementing Copyright Limitations in Rights Expression Languages
Type: Research Paper Year: 2002 “Implementing Copyright Limitations on Rights Expression Languages,” by Clinic Director Deirdre Mulligan and Clinic student Aaron Burstein, discusses how rights expression languages (RELs) decrease the expression of legal rights. RELs provide the necessary vocabulary to express rules which control the use of digital material. The paper discusses how to better […]
Copyright, the Archivist, and the Public Interest
Type: Clinical Project, Project Year: 2002 Over the course of two semesters, clinic students represented a non-profit that is digitizing and archiving short films, music clips and rendering software, with the goal of making this material available for independent filmmakers to use on generous license terms. The client’s collection already includes nearly 400 short films; […]
Samuelson Clinic Submitted Comments to the California Public Utilities Commission on Privacy and the “Smart Grid” on behalf of the Center for Democracy & Technology
Type: Clinical Project, Comments Year: 2010 The Samuelson Clinic, on behalf of its client the Center for Democracy & Technology, submitted formal comments in conjunction with the Electronic Frontier Foundation to the California Public Utility Commissions’ Smart Grid Rulemaking. The comments urge the Commission to build strong privacy protections into the Smart Grid and to […]
Clinic Researchers File Comment on Risk Asssessment with EAC
Type: Comments Year: 2008 Clinic researchers have filed a comment with the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC), asking the EAC to revise a proposed statement of work (SOW) concerning voting system risk assessment. According to the SOW, the EAC will use the results of the risk assessment to create security requirements in the next version […]
ACCURATE Submits Comments on the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines
Type: Project Year: 2008 A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable and Transparent Elections (ACCURATE) submitted public comments today to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission on their draft Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG), urging the Commission to adopt certain key features of the draft. The VVSG provides a national certification framework for U.S. voting […]