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 […]
Samuelson Clinic Released Paper on Legal, Technical, and Software Interface Design Issues Related to Spyware
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 […]
Network Security Architecture for Demand Response/Sensor Networks
Type: Report Year: 2006 The California Energy Commission published a report prepared by Clinic Director Deirdre Mulligan, U.C. Berkeley Professor David Wagner, Boalt student Erin Jones, Umesh Shankar, P.A. Subrahamanyam, and Clinic Fellow Jack Lerner. The report, entitled Network Security Architecture for Demand Response/Sensor Networks, explores security and privacy concerns that result from advanced metering […]
Samuelson Clinic Director Testified Before Department of Homeland Security on Expectations of Privacy in Public Spaces
Type: Testimony Year: 2006 Samuelson Clinic Director and Clinical Professor of Law Deirdre Mulligan testified before the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee regarding expectations of privacy in public places. Professor Mulligan observed that public spaces support functions that democracies care about, that we are at a unique constitutional moment […]
Demand Response Energy Systems: Security, Privacy, and Policy
Type: Presentation Year: 2007 Associate Director of Policy and Outreach and Senior Attorney, Maryanne McCormick, delivered a speech entitled Demand Response Energy Systems: Security, Privacy, and Policy at the Security Lunch at Stanford University. The speech discussed how the California Energy Commission and California Public Utilities Commission are pushing for demand response energy programs that […]