Christopher Hoofnagle quoted in The Kansas City Star, April 17, 2012
Chris Jay Hoofnagle believes employers may pull back from cyber-spying as they realize the downside. “Knowledge can mean liability,” said Hoofnagle. “What happens when you learn your star employee has a problem? You have to do something about it.”
-San Francisco Chronicle, The Tech Chronicles, February 17, 2012 by James Temple
http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/author/jamestemple/
Apple operates from an entirely different frame. Instead of spreading mediocre “free” products, the user pays for Apple products, and thus the customer is the consumer. For Google and the cabal of “free” service providers out there, the customer is the advertising industry.
-San Francisco Chronicle, Dot.Commentary, February 18, 2012 by James Temple
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/17/BUSO1N9ASP.DTL
Chris Hoofnagle, a digital privacy expert at UC Berkeley’s law school, said there’s a corporate tone-deafness within the engineering-centric culture of Google that leads to these sorts of mistakes. “To the engineer, cookie blocking appears to be a technical error that they should try to solve,” he said. “It’s very difficult for them to accept the frame that some people do not want this tracking.”
San Jose Mercury News, January 3, 2012 by Mike Swift
http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_19667554
“We found that consumers did not know where to file complaints, and when they did, many filed with industry-run groups,” Chris Hoofnagle, a lecturer at the Berkeley law school and an expert in information privacy law, said in an email. “Those groups almost never refer complaints to public authorities.”
The New York Times, November 14, 2011 by Somini Sengupta
http://nyti.ms/sCvkmr
“It’s convenient,” Mr. Hoofnagle said. “But do you want Facebook and Google to know where you’re going?”
The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 20, 2011 by Jeff Gelles
http://articles.philly.com/2011-10-20/business/30301830_1_verizon-and-verizon-wireless-privacy-policy-new-advertising-program
“The standard should be opt in,” Hoofnagle said. “If consumers really want more targeted advertising mediated from their own service provider, which they are directly paying, the service provider should get consent first.”
Data Privacy Monitor, September 2, 2011 by Craig Hoffman
http://www.dataprivacymonitor.com/behavioral-advertising/focus-on-behavioral-advertising-part-2/
The revised business guide should make clear that businesses should honor consumers’ expressed privacy preferences, and that businesses should not use technical means of any kind to circumvent or otherwise make ineffective consumers’ actions taken to protect their privacy.
-The Wall Street Journal, August 18, 2011 by Julia Angwin
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903480904576508382675931492.html
Major websites such as MSN.com and Hulu.com have been tracking people’s online activities using powerful new methods that are almost impossible for computer users to detect, new research shows.… Separately last month, researchers at the University of California at Berkeley, led by law professor Chris Hoofnagle, found supercookie techniques used by dozens of sites.
-San Francisco Chronicle, August 21, 2011 by James Temple
http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-08-21/business/29911051_1_cookies-online-privacy-online-marketers
Our study also found over 600 third-party hosts of cookies, most of which are not members of any self-regulatory organization (and thus aren’t bound to the rules of opt-out programs). They’re not even necessarily advertisers, they could be governments. We really don’t know who they are.
ClickZ, August 2, 2011 by Jack Marshall
http://www.clickz.com/clickz/news/2098796/tracking-methods-evade-user-control
Although KISSmetrics is not listed as a member of either of those initiatives, Hoofnagle suggested practices such as ETag tracking could severely undermine the efforts. “This is another example of tracking brought to light by researchers, rather than the industry self-regulatory groups…. It is unclear whether they have the technical expertise to engage in the surveillance and reverse engineering of new tracking methods,” he wrote in an email to ClickZ.
California Watch, June 20, 2011 by Erica Perez
http://bit.ly/k5D4sS
“At the most basic level, the FTC only has jurisdiction over acts in commerce,” Hoofnagle said in an e-mail. “Thus, for-profit educational institutions would be the easiest to reach, but state-run institutions, for both legal and political reasons, are not going to be pursued by the FTC.”
The Wall Street Journal, Digits blog, April 12, 2011
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/04/12/should-companies-self-regulate-on-privacy/tab/print/
Whether companies must honor opt-outs handled by third parties like Catalog Choice is a question that still hasn’t been determined, said Chris Hoofnagle of the University of California, Berkeley. Mr. Hoofnagle, who has been advising Catalog Choice on legal matters, says that the organization is legally an “agent” for people requesting opt-outs.