Christopher Hoofnagle Worries about Privacy Threats from Online Advertisers and Facebook

-The New York Times, April 16, 2010 by Stephanie Clifford
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/17/business/media/17coupon.html?scp=4&sq=Berkeley&st=nyt

“There is a feeling that anonymity in this space is kind of dead,” said Chris Jay Hoofnagle, director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology’s information privacy programs.

-The Daily Online Examiner, Media Post Blogs, April 16, 2010 by Wendy Davis
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=126329

“Facebook settings don’t seem to be based on any empirical evidence whatsoever,” Hoofnagle tells MediaPost. “They seem to be arbitrary.” What’s more, he adds, the new search-engine friendly settings seem “more controlled by Facebook’s desire to drive traffic than by any norms.”

-ClickZ, April 27, 2010 by Kate Kaye
http://www.clickz.com/3640189

“Facebook is in wealth maximization mode, which should give pause to any user concerned about increasing revelation of personal data,” wrote Hoofnagle in an e-mail to ClickZ News about the site’s recent changes. He went on to suggest that Facebook users “seem to be tiring of the company’s shifting goalposts on information sharing.”