Chris Hoofnagle
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 Do Not Call registry is a great success, but a couple of problems exist, ... The main loophole is the 'established business' clause. If you go to Starbucks for coffee, technically Starbucks can call you for 18 months.
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The Do Not Call registry is a great success, but a couple of problems exist. The main loophole is the 'established business' clause. If you go to Starbucks for coffee, technically Starbucks can call you for 18 months.
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I am kind of perplexed by their argument, ... You have a federally mandated program, created with federal dollars, but the states are issuing it. The states are not deciding anything, so I am not really sure how it is not a federal ID when the federal government makes all the decisions.
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Existing carrier practices and regulations are inadequate to stop this trade in personal information.
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No one wants to send out a security breach notice. You instantly become a pariah, and the fear is that you'll start to lose customers.
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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.
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The lawsuits are great. But a related difficulty here is that it's too easy to get telephone records.
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In the political field, candidates and parties have gotten away with a lot of practices that would clearly be illegal if a business did them. Both parties are using detailed databases of personal information that are completely unregulated. And they're not likely to be regulated, because the politicians themselves would have to limit their activities in order to do so.
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What often is missed with social irritants like spam and telemarketing is that they are a product of privacy violations, ... You can try to marginalize spam, but it is inextricably linked to fraudulent practices. Addressing spam will get at the other issues that they claim to be important.
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The privacy risk is that these codes may be later used for other law enforcement efforts outside counterfeiting, or to identify people who try to participate in political debates anonymously.
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We're arguing that it is creating a national ID system.
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There is huge pressure from industry to get Congress to preempt state data breach notice laws. It's quite a mess now.
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There are no laws that stop the government from looking at that info.