Type: Report Year: 2007 In advance of the Federal Trade Commission’s Town Hall on behavioral advertising, the Samuelson Clinic and the Annenberg Public Policy Center have released a report showing that most consumers think privacy policies prohibit common online advertising practices. Our research shows that individuals do not understand the basics and legality of […]
Samuelson, Annenberg Report: Consumers Believe Privacy Policies Prohibit Common Advertising Practices
Ubiquitous Computing: RFID and Information Goods
Type: Research Paper Year: 2003 Manufacturers, retailers, and libraries across the nation are interested in installing a new technology called Radio Frequency Identification to help them manage their inventories. However, using RFID may make it easy to invade personal privacy by collecting facts about individual purchase, reading, video rental, and book borrowing habits. The technology […]
Samuelson Clinic Submitted Comment to U.S. Copyright Office on behalf of Edward Felten and J. Alex Halderman
Type: Comments Year: 2005 The Samuelson Clinic submitted a comment to the U.S. Copyright Office on behalf of computer scientists Edward Felten and J. Alex Halderman, both of Princeton University. In their Comment, Professor Felten and Mr. Halderman requested an exemption to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act that would permit circumvention of technological measures protecting […]
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 […]
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 […]
Samuelson Clinic, Annenberg School of Communication Presented Report to FTC
Type: Report Year: 2006 According to a report jointly presented to the Federal Trade Commission’s Tech-ade Workshop by the Samuelson Clinic and the Annenberg School of Communication, web sites that use the label “privacy policy” are deceptive unless they obtain affirmative consent from consumers before selling personal information. This is because most consumers believe […]
Preliminary Analysis of E-Voting Problems Highlights Need for Heightened Standards and Testing
Type: Research Paper Year: 2004 Clinic Director Deirdre Mulligan and Joseph Lorenzo Hall co-authored Preliminary Analysis of E-Voting Problems Highlights Need for Heightened Standards and Testing. The paper discusses how electronic voting machines, such as the Direct Recording Electronic voting machine, have been under scrutiny due to numerous failings as well as security and privacy […]
Report Details Californians’ Understanding of Privacy Offline
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; […]
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 […]