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 […]
IDs – Not That Easy: Questions About Nationwide Identity Systems
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 […]
Enforcing Privacy Rights Symposium 2002
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 […]
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 […]