CITRIS Research Exchange: Sunlight as an Information Security Breach Disinfectant

April 18, 2007: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley

Sunlight as an Information Security Breach Disinfectant
Chris Hoofnagle [Senior Fellow, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, Boalt Hall School of Law]

12:00 p.m. on April 18 in 290 HMMB, UC Berkeley.

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Part of the CITRIS Research Exchange at the Banatao Institute at Berkeley. The complete schedule for the spring semester is online at CRE-Spring2007. Sponsored by Infineon Technologies.

Abstract:

Security breach notification laws require businesses and some government agencies to disclose when leaks of personal information occur. 35 states now have such laws, and the US Congress is likely to pass a broad breach notification law this year. The Samuelson Clinic has collected breach notification letters from over 200 security breaches, and is analyzing them to learn more about the breaches, and to make recommendations for new security breach duties. This discussion will consider the state laws, notification practices, and possible policy guidance for states and federal breach notification requirements.

Biography:

Chris Jay Hoofnagle is senior staff attorney to the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic and senior fellow with the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. His focus is consumer privacy law.

Hoofnagle is a nationally recognized expert in information privacy law. He has testified before the U.S. Congress and the California Senate and Assembly numerous times on social security number privacy and credit transactions. His most recent publication, Identity Theft: Making the Unknown Knowns Known, is forthcoming in volume 21 of the Harvard Journal on Law and Technology. Among his recent academic publications are Putting Identity Theft on Ice: Freezing Credit Reports to Prevent Lending to Impostors in Securing Privacy in An Internet Age (forthcoming 2007), A Model Regime of Privacy Protection in the University of Illinois Law Review (with J. Solove, 2006) and Big Brother's Little Helpers: How ChoicePoint and Other Commercial Data Brokers Collect, Process, and Package Your Data for Law Enforcement in the North Carolina Journal of International Law & Commercial Regulation (2004). He is admitted to practice law in California and the District of Columbia.
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