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[…] Consu mer Privacy Surveys Don’t Tell Us (June 2001) (unpublished manuscript), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers. cfm?abstract_id=299930 (“[P]rivacy surveys in particular . . . suffer from the ‘talk is cheap’ problem. It costs a consumer nothing to express a desire for federal law to protect privacy. But if such law became a 2013 ] BENEFIT -COST […]

[…] of finding the actual us- age of a format will further complicate the Commission ’s task. It may be difficult enough for the Commission to assess the number of sales of a software package or downloads from a site. It is even more diff i- /1272.pdf (describing the need to convert unstructured data formats […]

[…] will soon be flying over a number of jurisdictions. 6 The capacity of computers to access, store, and analyze data has made mountains of personal information—ranging from phone and e-mail logs to credit card and bank transactions—available to government officials at virtually the touch of a button. 7 Before Jones, the third party doctrine […]

[…] These organizations used net- worked servers to store applications and data and permit global access to these resources by authorized users using multiple devices, whether Macs, PCs, phones, or tablets. Alpha, Beta, and Epsilon Corporations developed Alzheimer’s disease in the human brain.” Gina Kolata, Rare Sharing of Data Led to Results on Alzheimer’s, N.Y. […]

[…] ∗ I.  INTRODUCTION   Internet scholarship in the United States generally concentrates on  how decisions made in this country about copyright law, network neu- trality, and other policy areas shape cyberspace. 1  In one important as- pect of the evolving Internet, however, a comparative focus is indis- pensable.  Legal forces outside the United States have significantly  shaped the governance of information privacy, a highly important as- pect of cyberspace, and one involving central issues of civil liberties.   The EU has played a major role in international decisions involving  information privacy, a role that has been bolstered by the authority of  EU member states to block data transfers to third party nations, in- cluding the United States. 2  The European Commission’s release in late January 2012 of its  proposed “General Data Protection Regulation” (the Proposed Regula- tion) provides a perfect juncture to assess the ongoing EU-U.S. privacy  collision. 3  An intense debate is now occurring about critical areas of  information policy, including the rules for lawfulness of personal pro- cessing, the “right to be forgotten,” and the conditions for data flows  between the EU and the United States.  This Article begins by tracing the rise of the current EU-U.S. pri- vacy status quo.  The European Commission’s 1995 Data Protection  Directive (the Directive) staked out a  number of bold positions, includ- ing a limit on international data transfers to countries that lacked “ad- equate” legal protections for personal information. 4  The impact of the  –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––  ∗ Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law; Director, Berkeley Cen- ter for Law & Technology.  For their insightful comments on earlier drafts, I wish to thank Jesse  Koehler, Ronald Lee, Katerina Linos, Anne Joseph O’Connell, Karl-Nikolaus Peifer, Joel  Reidenberg, Spiros Simitis, Daniel Solove, Latanya Sweeney, and Daniel Weitzner.  All transla- tions are my own.  1 See generally, e.g., T IM WU, THE  MASTER  SWITCH  (2010); J ONATHAN  ZITTRAIN , THE   FUTURE  OF  THE  INTERNET […]

[…] regarding its definition of “identifiable.” It explains that an “identifiable” person is “one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identification number or to one or more factors specific to his physical, physiological, me ntal, economic, cultural or social identity.” 10 As additional definitional assistance, the Directive in […]

[…] the one hand, it produced great fortunes and technological innovation that made what had been impossible commonplace. These new innovations included factories, steam engines, railroads, cars, airplanes, cheap textiles, and shaped the modern world into a form that we (or at least our parents) could recognize. But on the other hand, the industrial revolution […]

[…] a tradeoff with the hardware abilities of the device. This is where the value of the cloud becomes clearer: there are fewer tradeoffs from having smaller and cheaper end -user devices because these devices can tap into the power of network -based services. 27 23 . Kimberly L. Rhodes & Brian Kunis, Walking the […]

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[…] participant by sampling GPS or cell-tower location. The “Personal Data Stream” captured by the mobile device is then automatically uploaded to secure servers via the wireless mobile- phone network. The server processes the data using models to estimate participant activities; for example, by using location and velocity, the server can determine whether the individual […]