Chris Hoofnagle
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Chris Hoofnagle
Chris Jay Hoofnagle is an American professor at the University of California, Berkeley who teaches information privacy law, computer crime law, regulation of online privacy, and internet law. Hoofnagle has made notable contributions to the privacy literature through a set of surveys that establish that most Americans prefer not to be targeted online for advertising and that, despite claims to the contrary, young people care about privacy and take actions to protect it. Hoofnagle is the author of Federal Trade...
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The problem with privacy cases is that most privacy plaintiffs have to give up their privacy. In order to sue you have to show up in court and show that they used your phone records.
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There are no laws that stop the government from looking at that info.
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There are established legal procedures for obtaining phone records that provide checks against improper access. These legal procedures allow fast access to phone record for law enforcement and provide accountability. That's what missing here, the accountability.
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We're arguing that it is creating a national ID system.
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A technology that can analyze content at that level invites secondary uses, whether it's law enforcement or national security.
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It's just a lot easier to fool someone into giving you this information than to actually crack into a computer system.