Christopher Hoofnagle quoted in CNET News, July 13, 2012
Google’s moral compass is steered to a large degree by its mantra of “don’t be evil.” “They believe their intentions are pure and therefore privacy problems are not a problem because they don’t intend to harm people,” said Chris Hoofnagle.
Christopher Hoofnagle writes for Technology | Academics | Policy, July 13, 2012
Consumers need the ability to change their minds and walk away from a service. While the Federal Trade Commission has so far focused upon improving consumers’ positions ex ante, increasingly we need to consider ex post interventions, such as a right to delete information associated with an account, so that the consumer can exit whole.
Christopher Hoofnagle, Jennifer Urban, and Su Li’s report cited in Ars Technica, July 12, 2012
A new study from the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology asked 1,200 households several straightforward questions about what level of privacy they think they have when using a cell phone, and what information is and is not OK for companies to track and store. The majority thinks they have far more privacy than they do, and are unequivocally opposed to some of the most common forms of data collection.
This story also appeared in Boing Boing.
Christopher Hoofnagle cited in The Ice Loop, July 9, 2012
The Berkeley Law Web Privacy Census seeks to make empirical statements about internet tracking and privacy using consistent methods over time. To conduct the census, Nathan Good, Chief scientist of Good Research, and Chris Jay Hoofnagle, director of information privacy programs at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, worked with privacy company Abine to collect data from the top 100, 1,000, and 25,000 most popular websites.
Christopher Hoofnagle quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, June 26, 2012
We want to provide a longitudinal and empirical basis for the description of privacy problems online,” he said. “So as the FTC and Department of Commerce adopt approaches, we can say something about whether tracking is increasing or decreasing or shifting to other technologies.” This story also appeared in these outlets: CNET News and San Francisco Business Times.
Christopher Hoofnagle quoted in Des Moines Register, June 23, 2012
Chris Hoofnagle, an identity theft expert at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, said banks too often forgo participating in criminal investigations, choosing to spread the costs of their untold losses to customers instead…. “Many banks do not cooperate because they risk having to appear in court to discuss how the institution was swindled.”
Christopher Hoofnagle quoted in The Columbus Dispatch, May 6, 2012
The Fair Credit Reporting Act “operates under a 1960s conception of a credit report. You literally had a file — a card paper file,” said Chris Hoofnagle, who is a lecturer at the University of California-Berkeley School of Law and an industry critic who calls the credit-reporting agencies necessary evils. “The law has not kept up with the technology.”
Christopher Hoofnagle cited in Slate, Dear Prudence, May 3, 2012
I spoke to Chris Hoofnagle of the UC-Berkeley School of Law to see if your niece, especially since she is still a teenager, has any legal remedy for getting the video off the porn site. He said that since she doesn’t own the copyright, and if she was not a minor when she filmed it, she has virtually no recourse.
Christopher Hoofnagle and Jennifer Urban survey cited in IntoMobile, May 2, 2012
According to a new survey by law professors at the University of California Berkeley, most Americans are uneasy with the idea that their phones could divulge behavioral and personal information like phone numbers and in-store browsing habits.
Christopher Hoofnagle and Jennifer Urban cited in The New York Times, Bits, April 30, 2012
A new survey … suggests that most Americans are uneasy with the idea that their phones could divulge behavioral and personal information, like phone numbers and in-store browsing habits. The survey was created by Chris Hoofnagle and Jennifer Urban…. The Berkeley professors warned of the prospect that “social network services with payment systems could add transaction histories to their already rich databases of behavioral information.”