Information Policy

Related Faculty

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John Chuang

Professor
Biosensory computing; climate informatics; information economics and policy
Chris Hoofnagle

Chris Jay Hoofnagle

Professor of Practice
Internet law, information privacy, consumer protection, cybersecurity, computer crime, regulation of technology, edtech
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Deirdre Mulligan

Professor
privacy, fairness, human rights, cybersecurity, technology and governance, values in design
AnnaLee (Anno) Saxenian

AnnaLee Saxenian

Professor
Regional economic development, Entrepreneurship, Silicon Valley.

Recent Publications

Context, Causality, and Information Flow: Implications for Privacy Engineering, Security, and Data Economics
May 8, 2018

The creators of technical infrastructure are under social and legal pressure to comply with expectations that can be difficult to translate into computational and business logics. This dissertation bridges this gap through three projects that focus on privacy engineering, information security, and data economics, respectively. These projects culminate in a new formal method for evaluating the strategic and tactical value of data: data games. This method relies on a core theoretical contribution building on the work of Shannon, Dretske, Pearl, Koller, and Nissenbaum: a definition of situated information flow as causal flow in the context of other causal relations and strategic choices.

China’s long game in techno-nationalism
May 7, 2018
The new world of data: Four provocations on the Internet of Things
Feb 6, 2017
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Public Cybersecurity and Rationalizing Information Sharing
Apr 6, 2016
Assessing the Federal Trade Commission's Privacy Assessments
Mar 1, 2016
Native Advertising and Endorsement: Schema, Source-Based Misleadingness, and Omission of Material Facts
Dec 15, 2015
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Privacy on the Ground: Driving Corporate Behavior in the United States and Europe
Oct 1, 2015

An examination of corporate privacy management in the United States, Germany, Spain, France, and the United Kingdom, identifying international best practices and making policy recommendations.

Cybersecurity Research: Addressing the Legal Barriers and Disincentives
Sep 28, 2015
Wireless Visions: Infrastructure, Imagination, and US Spectrum Policy
Mar 16, 2015
Where in the World is the Internet? Locating Political Power in Internet Infrastructure
Dec 1, 2014

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Information Policy news

UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity Hires Executive Director, Senior Fellow
Oct 30, 2015
Executive director Dr. Betsy Cooper and senior fellow Jonathan Reiber join research center.
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New Center to Fund Research on Technology, Society, and Policy
Sep 15, 2015
Is technology affecting our mental health? Can technology support free speech and still protect against harassment? How do we embed our biases in big data algorithms? The Center for Technology, Society & Policy wants to explore these questions and more.
Deirdre K. Mulligan
Professor Mulligan Urges Cybersecurity Law Reform
May 11, 2015
Statement to US Copyright Office urges reform of the laws inhibiting cybersecurity research.
Xiao Qiang
Xiao Qiang Named to Foreign Policy Magazine’s Pacific Power Index
Jan 27, 2015
Professor Xiao was named to the list for “for taking on China’s Great Firewall of censorship.”
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Why the Facebook Experiment is Lousy Social Science
Aug 28, 2014
Facebook is grappling with its impact on our social and emotional lives  —  and that’s a good thing. But it has to get the research right. Why Facebook did the experiment, and how to make it better.
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Why Surveillance Leads to Government Corruption
Jul 11, 2014
Once a pervasive surveillance infrastructure is in place, a government will always have an incentive to abuse that power, according to new research.
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Experts Mine Questions of Big Data, Power, and Privacy
Apr 3, 2014
Capped by a keynote from Obama adviser John Podesta, a day-long workshop brought together the worlds of government, business, the law, and academia for what assistant professor Deirdre Mulligan called “a frank and honest conversation about our values,” and about how to balance those values with the omnipresent, often invisible collection of data about every aspect of our lives.
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How Government Documents Enable Transparency and Accountability
Feb 6, 2014
New research presents case studies from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake; Rajasthan, India, at the turn of the 20th century; and a present-day Indian welfare system.
Rajesh Veeraraghavan
Can Open Government Initiatives Combat Corruption?
Oct 8, 2013
Ph.D. student Rajesh Veeraraghavan is analyzing the effects of an Indian “open government” initiative, which uses information transparency to fight corruption in the distribution of government benefits.
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Non-Profit “Free Law Project” Provides Open Access to U.S. Case Law
Sep 25, 2013
Although case law is technically public domain, legal decisions are often scattered across the Internet, locked up in proprietary systems, and only available by paying exorbitant fees. A new non-profit aims to make these legal materials easily and freely available to all.

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