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 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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Through the mining of public records and the purchase of credit reporting data, private-sector companies are amassing troves of personal information on citizens for the government. Serious questions exist involving citizen access to profiles, their accuracy and the potential for misuse of personal information.
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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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Credit monitoring can't prevent ID theft. The thing that is worth paying for is the security freeze.
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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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One of the problems of the advertising-supported system is it's built for advertising, not people.
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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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We tend to think of security issues as being computer-based. But many scam artists use the telephone and simple false pretenses to trick people out of data.
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There has been a creeping spread of location technology in the workplace.
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It's the first step to federal recognition of credit freezes.
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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 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 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.