Arizona Republic, August 17, 2009 by Andrew Johnson
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2009/08/17/20090817biz-lifelock0817.html

Hoofnagle, who filed a declaration supporting LifeLock’s pending motion in the Experian case, said that while LifeLock’s ads are misleading, consumers should be able to hire companies to set fraud alerts. “Identity theft refers to a broad range of crimes, including financial and medical identity theft and even impersonation,” he said. “(But) even with credit-monitoring services, you can fall victim to all three types of identity theft.”

The Associated Press, August 16, 2009 by Holly Ramer
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hy-198lZYAltwbqaBxHgUY7damuwD9A437HG0

Some federal agencies collect locally-issued Social Security numbers from grant and loan applicants and report them to credit bureaus as if they were U.S. numbers, regardless of whether the numbers already are in use. That’s the beginning of the problem, which isn’t identity theft but can create some of the same headaches when identities become linked in the eyes of lenders or creditors. “This can really slow you down if there is a default or a history of bad payment,” said Chris Jay Hoofnagle, director of information privacy programs at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology.

Wired, August 10, 2009 by Ryan Singel
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/08/you-deleted-your-cookies-think-again/

The study comes as Congress and federal regulators are looking at ways of reining in the online tracking and advertising industry…. Soltani led a summer research team at Berkeley, under the direction of Chris Hoofnagle, the Director of Information Privacy Programs at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. The team tested the top 100 sites to see what their privacy policies said, what their tracking technology actually does and what happens if a user blocks the Flash cookie.

The Washington Post, August 6, 2009 by Jocelyn Noveck
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32305761/

“There are a lot of personal Web sites where people vent,” says Hoofnagle, the Berkeley lecturer. Is there any way to monitor these sites, and perhaps prevent crimes like Sodini’s killing spree? “To my knowledge, there’s no organized effort to look for the foreshadowing of this type of event,” Hoofnagle says.

CBS-5 TV News, July 15, 2009 by Anna Werner
http://cbs5.com/local/credit.card.numbers.2.1085913.html

He points out that in the past, Google has taken additional steps to protect individuals’ privacy, such as blurring faces on the company’s “Street View” mapping feature. “Google has taken some steps here and there to obscure information to protect privacy,” Hoofnagle said. “And there are a number of things one could do to make the document disappear if you really wanted them to.”

-NPR.org, July 6, 2009 by Christopher Joyce
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106324377

Chris Hoofnagle, a technology lawyer at the University of California, Berkeley, says computer criminals don’t even have to get the whole, exact Social Security number to create a “fictitious person” and secure a credit card, something he calls “synthetic identify theft.” They can do it with a fake or partial number.

-ScienceNOW, July 6, 2009 by Karen C. Fox
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/706/1

“Using Social Security numbers for both identification and authentication is no longer tenable, because possession of the number—unlike a fingerprint—offers no verification of identity.”

-Wired, July 6, 2009 by Hadley Leggett
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/predictingssn/

Privacy law expert Chris Hoofnagle of the University of California, Berkeley, says the response must be drastic. “Their paper points to a radical solution: Perhaps we should stop trying to protect the secrecy of the SSN, and just publish all of them to prevent their use as passwords.”

-KGO-TV, July 13, 2009 by Terry McSweeney
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/technology&id=6912260

“If you know where someone was born and the month they were born, you can decode at least part of the Social Security number,” said Prof. Chris Hoofnagle, director of Information Privacy Programs at the University of California Berkeley.… “Even if you guess incorrectly, you still may be able to steal identities through a new form of identity theft known as synthetic identity theft, and in this form of the crime you create a new person, you create a fictitious person, using a similar kind of guessing game of Social Security numbers,” said Hoofnagle.

The Denver Post, July 5, 2009 by Allison Sherry
http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_12754951

Beyond privacy, University of California, Berkeley law professor Chris Hoofnagle worries that teachers, case workers and volunteers will rely too heavily on the computer. “Instead of sitting down with a student and asking her about her problems, the first step is to go to the computer,” said Hoofnagle, director of Information Privacy Programs at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. “How do you handle a conflict between what the student tells you and what the computer tells you?”

CIO.com, June 16, 2009 by Tim Greene
http://www.cio.com/article/495132/Google_Urged_to_Beef_Up_Gmail_Security

The danger, the letter writers say, is “when a user composes email, documents, spreadsheets, presentations and calendar plans, this potentially sensitive content is transferred to Google’s servers in the clear, allowing anyone with the right tools to steal that information.” When public Internet connections are used, that creates a risk of data theft and snooping, they say. Among those who signed the letter are … Chris Hoofnagle, director of information privacy programs at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 11, 2009 by Aisha Sultan
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/998EF1A4F78B6B55862575D200026198?OpenDocument

“Under U.S. law, permission is needed before an image or likeness is used in an advertisement,” said Chris Hoofnagle…. It would be a simple case here: “You approach the company and say, ‘Where is my money?'” he said.

The New York Times, June 2, 2009 by Miguel Helft
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/google-is-top-tracker-of-surfers-in-study/

“Consumers were complaining to the F.T.C. about a lack of control over personal information,” Mr. Hoofnagle said. “That is very different from how the F.T.C. has framed the issue,” he said, noting that under the Bush administration, the agency frowned on privacy practices only if they caused harm to consumers. Mr. Hoofnagle added: “We have a new F.T.C. now. They may scrap the ‘harm’ approach and look at some other method for balancing rights and responsibilities.”