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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 ...
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
February 13th, 2017
By: Jacqueline de Souza Abreu Jacqueline de Souza Abreu (@jacqueabreu) is Project Lead at InternetLab, a São Paulo-based law and technology research center. She holds LL.M. degrees from UC Berkeley and LMU Munich. Brazilian judicial authorities ordered that access to the U.S. messaging service WhatsApp be blocked three times within the last ...
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
March 13th, 2016
Transparent. Accessible. User friendly. Many of the key principles that serve as the foundation for inclusive elections resonate strongly with the startup community. In order to foster joint discussion and problem solving, the brought together lawyers, technologists, policy wonks, and investors for “Moving Politics to the Web: How Technology Can ...
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
October 10th, 2014
Berkeley Center for Law and Technology’s Seventh Annual Privacy Lecture was held on October 6, 2014, on Berkeley Law School’s campus. Moderated by Paul Schwartz, the presentation began with Ross Anderson presenting his recent paper, Privacy versus government surveillance – where network effects meet public choice. The panel continued with responses ...