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Student Podcast
October 6th, 2020
Hosts Matt Sardo ’23 and Meg Sullivan ‘ 23 follow up on last week’s coverage of TikTok’s request for an injunction to the ban of its app, and cover Epic Games’ lawsuit against Apple following the companies’ dispute over banning Fortnite from Apple’s App Store, the EU’s draft of antitrust ...
BTLJ Blog
March 22nd, 2017
By Amit Elazari Bar On, Adv., LL.M., Doctoral Law Student (J.S.D.), UC Berkeley School of Law, CTSP Fellow, Information School, UC Berkeley | March 22, 2017 In an economy where data is an emerging global currency, software vulnerabilities and security breaches are naturally a major area of concern. Data breaches’ ...
Student Podcast
February 20th, 2017
Chante Westmoreland (JD Candidate ’18) and Patrick Johnson (JD Candidate ’19) interview Chris Hoofnagle of the UC Berkeley School of Law and School of Information. Chris discusses how consumers unknowingly expose their data to companies, the consequences of exposure, and provides some tips on how consumers can better protect their ...
BTLJ Blog
June 22nd, 2016
Contemporary consumer privacy law in the United States is largely based on the Fair Information Practice Principles (FIPPs). These FIPPs are conceptually challenged by the “Internet of Things,” the digital ecosystem where sensors embedded in everyday physical objects – from watches and shoes to refrigerators and roads – communicate with ...
BTLJ Blog
June 22nd, 2016
If privacy policies are meant to secure informed consent from consumers before their personal data is collected, several studies have shown that they have failed. Consumers do not know what privacy policies are, often because they either do not read them or they cannot understand them. This creates a conundrum ...
BTLJ Blog
January 6th, 2015
40 million; the number of credit and debit card numbers stolen in the Target data breach of 2013. 200 million; the number of dollars credit unions and community banks spent reissuing only half of them. 1-3 million; the estimated number of these cards’ data successfully sold on the black market ...
BTLJ Blog
May 16th, 2013
The Copyright Alert System (CAS) was rolled out in late February 2013. CAS constitutes the United States realization of the international concept of “graduated response programs:” frameworks for media owners to address alleged online copyright infringements with computer users through their Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Key features of CAS – ...
BTLJ Blog
March 12th, 2012
On February 23, 2012 President Obama’s administration (“the Administration”) released an important new report entitled “Consumer Data Privacy In A Networked World: A Framework For Protecting Privacy And Promoting Innovation In The Global Digital Economy.” President Obama situates the new report as a mechanism that encourages the further development of ...