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 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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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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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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Retailers and banks are trying to pass a law that's much weaker.
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I think this could be a very interesting way to deal with the telemarketing issue for consumers.
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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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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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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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No system is totally secure. If you want privacy, see a doctor who keeps his records in his office.
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Existing carrier practices and regulations are inadequate to stop this trade in personal information.
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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.