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Deirdre Mulligan, Kenneth Bamberger Co-Author Privacy Paper

Stanford Center for Internet and Society, March 4, 2011 by Omer Tene
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/6629

I find the Deirdre Mulligan and Kenneth Bamberger paper, Privacy on the Books and on the Ground, eye opening in this respect. In what is surely one of the most important and influential papers on privacy over the past decade, the authors identify stark differences between the development of the profession on both sides of the Atlantic.


Kenneth Bamberger and Deirdre Mulligan Examine Privacy Law and Practice

-Center for American Progress, January 28, 2011 by Peter Swire
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/01/privacy_office.html

Much as is occurring this year, the FTC and Commerce Departments played complementary roles in the mid- to late-1990s in developing privacy policy…. The history of the FTC’s involvement in this period has been well discussed in work by Kenneth Bamberger and Deirdre Mulligan.

-Stanford Center for Internet and Society, February 4, 2011 by Omer Tene
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/6609

For those interested in the development of the privacy profession, the role of the CPO (Chief Privacy Officer), and integration of privacy into corporate governance structures, I highly recommend a recent article by Ken Bamberger and Deirdre Mulligan of Berkeley.


Deirdre Mulligan Says Facebook Must Drill Privacy into Its Technology

The New York Times, October 18, 2010 by Miguel Helft
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/19/technology/19facebook.html?_r=1&scp=5&sq=Berkeley&st=nyt

“This is one more straw on the camel’s back that suggests that Facebook needs to think holistically not just about its privacy policies, but also about baking privacy into their technical design,” said Deirdre Mulligan.


Kenneth Bamberger and Deirdre Mulligan Write Influential Privacy Paper

Chronicle of Data Protection, September 15, 2010 by Eric Bukstein
http://bit.ly/97pSWN

The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) announced the papers that were selected as “privacy papers for policy makers” …. These works were deemed by the FPF to be the recent scholarship dealing with privacy issues that will prove most useful to policy makers. The papers that were selected are: Privacy on the Books and on the Ground—Kenneth A. Bamberger and Deirdre K. Mulligan….


Deirdre Mulligan Calls Internet a Powerful Platform for Democracy

San Francisco Chronicle, July 4, 2010 by Jim Dempsey and Deirdre K. Mulligan
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/04/INAP1E6UCI.DTL

In the early days of the Internet, policymakers, advocates, companies and coalitions built a policy architecture to steer the technology toward democratic ends. These policy choices embodied the principles of openness, innovation, interconnection, nondiscrimination, user control, freedom of expression, privacy and trust. It is this symbiosis of technology and policy that produced a platform on which individuals across the globe exercise their democratic muscles.


Kenneth Bamberger and Deirdre Mulligan Advocate for Multi-Stakeholder Privacy Policies

National Telecommunications and Information Administration, April 29, 2010 by Lawrence E. Strickling
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/presentations/2010/InternetSociety_04292010.html

As privacy scholars Deirdre Mulligan and Ken Bamberger (University of California, Berkeley I-School and Law School) recently wrote, this type of dynamic, hybrid system in which both private and public stakeholders participate may well yield actual privacy practices that are more responsive to evolving consumer privacy expectations than would a traditional rulemaking system.


Deirdre Mulligan Criticizes Google Buzz Privacy Controls

The New York Times, February 12, 2010 by Miguel Helft
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/technology/internet/13google.html

“You want to have a simple rollback mechanism, so once things are not what you expected them to be, you can get out quickly and not have to play a game of Whack-a-Mole,” said Deirdre Mulligan, a privacy expert and assistant professor at the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley.


Deirdre Mulligan Says Americans Value Privacy Despite Personal Online Posts

Computer World, June 11, 2009 by Michael Fitzgerald
http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=D14C9B49-1A64-6A71-CEBB8DE087527FB6

People also ask for photos or videos to be removed from social networking sites, says Deirdre Mulligan…. Individuals and communities have balked at the way Google Maps’ Street View exposes location information. Meanwhile, a 2008 Harris Interactive poll found that 60 percent of Americans were uneasy about having Web content customized for them based on their usage patterns.


Deirdre Mulligan Discusses Breach Notification Law at Seminar with Sen. Simitian

-Wired Threat Level Blog, March 6, 2009 by Kim Zetter
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/03/ca-looks-to-exp.html

“If you actually got it passed,” she said, “it would be a very big deal.”

-CNET News, March 6, 2009 by Elinor Mills
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10190978-83.html

Of consumers who have been notified that their data may have been exposed during a data breach, 20 percent claim they ended their relationship with the company breached but the actual churn rate is less than 7 percent, said Deirdre Mulligan.

-Wired Threat Level Blog, March 9, 2009 by Kim Zetter
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/03/experts-debate.html

According to Deirdre Mulligan, a professor of information technology law and policy … a Ponemon study found that about 20 percent of respondents claimed to have terminated their relationship with a company after discovering that the company experienced a breach.