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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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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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.
There will be legislation to tighten up privacy. And if not legislation, there will be more regulation.
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It's the first step to federal recognition of credit freezes.
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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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One of the problems of the advertising-supported system is it's built for advertising, not people.
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There has been a creeping spread of location technology in the workplace.
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It clearly can be dangerous for some people to have this information. Imagine how costly exposure of these records could be for a business executive whose list of calls is obtained by a competitor. There can be real harm.
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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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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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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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If you have a legitimate need you can get these records, the problem is these companies are offering an illegal shortcut that is unfair to the consumer.