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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I think companies may find the data used against them in lawsuits, ... Plaintiffs' attorneys might be able to prove a taxi or delivery van was speeding.
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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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The practice will never completely disappear, but we think as it gets more attention, the number of sites doing it will be on the decline.
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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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Existing carrier practices and regulations are inadequate to stop this trade in personal information.
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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.
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Because you have to sign in to use it, they can attach your identity to anything you send through that pipe.
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Credit monitoring can't prevent ID theft. The thing that is worth paying for is the security freeze.
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No system is totally secure. If you want privacy, see a doctor who keeps his records in his office.
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It's the first step to federal recognition of credit freezes.
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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.