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15th Annual BCLT Privacy Lecture: Playing the Long Game

October 14, 2022
3:30 P.M.
University Club, California Memorial Stadium
UC Berkeley

Presented by Joseph Turow, Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Media Systems & Industries at the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School for Communications, with responses by Laura Brandimarte, Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems, University of Arizona Eller College of Management, and Fred Turner, Norman Chandler Professor of Communication, Stanford University, and introductions by Kiana Harkema and Katherine Wang, Privacy Law at Berkeley (PrivLab)

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14th Annual BCLT Privacy Lecture: Policing Families

October 28, 2021
Virtual Event
 
In this lecture, Professor Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights at the University of Pennsylvania, explored themes from her forthcoming book on family policing. As predictive technologies are integrated into the child protection services and foster care systems, her analysis of the nature and impact of government surveillance on families was especially timely.
 
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13th Annual BCLT Privacy Lecture:
Digital and Physical Company Towns in the Age of Public Capitalism

Thursday, October 29, 2020
3:30 – 5:30 PM
Berkeley Law
 
Prof. Jon Michaels, UCLA School of Law
 
Big tech today has its own supreme court, is poised to coin its own currency, and is building various company towns, complete with housing, transportation, retail, and green spaces.  These interventions reveal much about our present-day political economy, the health of our democracy, and our views about the state and the market.  These interventions, furthermore, signal potentially seismic shifts in how we approach questions of constitutional law, corporate governance, and security and privacy. 
 
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11th Annual BCLT Privacy Lecture:
“Privacy Must Fall”
The World According to Surveillance Capitalism

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March 14, 2019
International House
UC Berkeley
2299 Piedmont Avenue
Berkeley, CA

Professor Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (January 2019), joined the Harvard Business School faculty in 1981. One of the first tenured women at the school, she was the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration. Her career has been devoted to the study of the rise of the digital, its individual, organizational, and social consequences, and its relationship to the history and future of capitalism. 
 
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The 10th Annual BCLT Privacy Lecture

Open Data, Trust, and Stewardship:
Universities at the Privacy Frontier

November 16, 2017
Faculty Club

Berkeley, CA

Presented by Christine Borgman, Distinguished Professor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies at UCLA and Director of the UCLA Center for Knowledge Infrastructures, with responses by Erwin ChemerinskyDean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law and Katie Shilton, Associate Professor, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland. Moderated by Paul Schwartz, Professor at the UC Berkeley School of Law.

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October 6, 2016
Bancroft Hotel

Berkeley, CA

Presented by Robert Post, Yale Law School Dean, with responses by Leslie Kendrick, Professor at UVA Law School, and Eugene Volokh, Professor at UCLA Law School. Moderated by Paul Schwartz, Professor at the UC Berkeley School of Law.

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8th annual privacy lecture. Is personal information a public good? UC Berkeley School of Law. November 12, 2015

November 12, 2015
Booth Auditorium, Boalt Hall

Berkeley, CA

Presented by Professor Alessandro Acquisti of Carnegie Mellon University with responses from Joseph Farrell (UC Berkeley), Haksoo Ko (Seoul National University, School of Law, Korea), and Jan Whittington, University of Washington). Moderated by Paul Schwartz, Professor at the UC Berkeley School of Law.

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Privacy vs government surveillance: where network effects meet public choice. The 7th annual BCLT privacy lecture. October 6, 2014.

October 6, 2014
Booth Auditorium, Boalt Hall

Berkeley, CA

Presented by Professor Ross Anderson with responses by Carl Shapiro, James Aquilina, and Anupam Chander. Moderated by Paul Schwartz, Professor at the UC Berkeley School of Law.

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The 6th Annual BCLT Privacy Lecture. February 28, 2013. Data Access & Retention in the EU and US.

February 28, 2013
Bancroft Hotel
Berkeley, CA

Presented by Professor Joel Reidenberg with responses by Kurt Wimmer and Professor Anu Bradford. Moderated by Professor Paul Schwartz.

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 The 5th Annual BCLT Privacy Lecture. The large immortal machine & the ticking time bomb. March 19th, 2012
March 19, 2012
Bancroft Hotel
Berkeley, CA

Presented by Dr. Susan Landau with responses from Dr. Rolf H. Weber and Dr. Felix Wu. Moderated by Professor Paul Schwartz.

Designers of the first electronic telephone switches nicknamed them the “large immortal machines” because switches last decades.  The 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) requires that all digital-switched telephone networks be built wiretap enabled; the law took longevity of switches into account byauthorizing funding to update switches in place.  But by failing to analyze how threat models would change in a highly connected IP-based world, CALEA did not consider the longevity of switches prospectively.  As an architected security breach, CALEA compliance is a ticking time bomb.  Alleviating this was the subject of this talk.

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The 4th Annual BCLT Privacy Lecture: Standardizing Privacy Notices: Privacy Taxonomy, Privacy Nutrition Labels, and Computer-Readable Policies

February 17, 2011
Bancroft Hotel

Berkeley, CA

Presented by Dr. Lorrie Cranor with responses from Dr. Thomas Fetzer and Dr. Jennifer Gove. Moderated by Professor Paul Schwartz.

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Privacy - An Endless Debate?

April 5, 2010
Bancroft Hotel
Berkeley, CA

In this lecture, Professor Spiros Simitis discussed the famous article by William Prosser, Privacy, which appeared in the California Law Review fifty years ago. He identified the comparable approaches in other legal systems, and especially in German law. He also described and analyzed the gradual replacement of traditional privacy approaches by modern information privacy statutes, which are termed “data protection laws.” He concluded with a depiction of the increasingly awkward situation of privacy against the background of a constantly expanding Internet. Professor Spiros Simitis is the father of modern European information privacy law. Through his scholarship, policy entrepreneurship, and political engagement, he has played a uniquely significant role in shaping major European regulation in the area of privacy.

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Confronting the Third Party Doctrine and the Privacy of Personal Information. March 17, 2008 - Berkeley, CA

March 18, 2009
Bancroft Hotel
Berkeley, CA

It is easy to fall into the trap of assuming that legal systems typically resolve dyadic relationships in which a plaintiff seeks to gain something from a defendant. But in the many social settings the operative arrangements involve three or more parties, and the question is how to sort out the arrangements among them. These questions can arise in private law, for example, when one person lends property to a
third person for safekeeping. These three cornered problems have generated interesting legal solutions under the law of bailments when property has been destroyed by a third person. More close to home, there is a long line of cases that addresses the question of whether the bailee of tangible property is in a position to claim any privilege of his bailor when that property is sought by government investigators. The mode of search and request may change as we move from tangible documents to cyberspace, but the principle of analysis says the same. Professor Epstein argued that privileges against government intrusion into information are these same in all settings and that the owner of property should not be required to forfeit protection when that information is transferred to third parties.

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Would you rather be on closed circuit TV or in jail? Trade-offs between liberty and Privacy in the US and the UK

April 14, 2008
Bancroft Hotel

Berkeley, CA

In the first two years after 9/11, U.S. authorities detained over 5,000 foreign nationals in anti-terrorism preventive detention measures. Today, all have been released, and not one stands convicted of a terrorist offense. In the United Kingdom, by contrast, authorities rounded up far fewer suspects in the wake of September 11 or their own terrorist subway and bus bombings on July 7, 2005. At the same time, privacy protections in the UK appear to be substantially less robust than in the United States, as a matter of law and practice. Closed-circuit television cameras are ubiquitous, the police have been authorized to make suspicionless stop-and-frisks throughout London since 9/11, and wiretapping is subject to far less oversight than in the US. We often talk about the balance between liberty and security, but this comparison suggests that there may also be significant trade-offs between liberties. The less a government knows about where threats lie, the more likely it may be to conduct expansive sweeps and preventive detention in the face of a security threat. A comparison of the UK and US response to terrorism suggests that trade-offs between rights may themselves be as fraught, and as significant, as the trade-offs between rights and security.

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