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'''Chris Jay Hoofnagle''' is a [[professor]] and [[researcher]] at the [[University of California, Berkeley]]<ref>http://www.law.berkeley.edu/php-programs/faculty/facultyProfile.php?facID=6494</ref><ref>http://www.techpolicy.com/Academics/Chris-Hoofnagle.aspx</ref> |
'''Chris Jay Hoofnagle''' is a [[professor]] and [[researcher]] at the [[University of California, Berkeley]].<ref>http://www.law.berkeley.edu/php-programs/faculty/facultyProfile.php?facID=6494</ref><ref>http://www.techpolicy.com/Academics/Chris-Hoofnagle.aspx</ref> |
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==Early life== |
==Early life== |
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Chris Jay Hoofnagle has served as an [[advisor]] for several [[student]] [[project]]s at the University of California, Berkeley School of Information]]. Notably, he advised [[Ashkan Soltani]] and his colleagues on their article "Flash Cookies and Privacy,".<ref>http://ssrn.com/abstract=1446862</ref> |
Chris Jay Hoofnagle has served as an [[advisor]] for several [[student]] [[project]]s at the [[University of California, Berkeley School of Information]]. Notably, he advised [[Ashkan Soltani]] and his colleagues on their article "Flash Cookies and Privacy,".<ref>http://ssrn.com/abstract=1446862</ref> |
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Chris Jay Hoofnagle and [[Ashkan Soltani]] published a [[follow-up]] on this work in 2011 documenting the use of "[[HTTP ETag]]s" to store persistent identifiers. <ref>http://ssrn.com/abstract=1898390</ref> |
Chris Jay Hoofnagle and [[Ashkan Soltani]] published a [[follow-up]] on this work in 2011 documenting the use of "[[HTTP ETag]]s" to store persistent identifiers. <ref>http://ssrn.com/abstract=1898390</ref> |
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Revision as of 16:43, 6 January 2014
Chris Jay Hoofnagle is a professor and researcher at the University of California, Berkeley.[1][2]
Early life
Chris Jay Hoofnagle has served as an advisor for several student projects at the University of California, Berkeley School of Information. Notably, he advised Ashkan Soltani and his colleagues on their article "Flash Cookies and Privacy,".[3]
Chris Jay Hoofnagle and Ashkan Soltani published a follow-up on this work in 2011 documenting the use of "HTTP ETags" to store persistent identifiers. [4]
Notable works
Chris Jay Hoofnagle has used research to propose policy solutions to privacy problems such as requiring lending institutions and payment firms to publicly report their internal statistics on fraud and identity theft. In 2007, the New York Times wrote about Chris Jay Hoofnagle's work on curbing identify theft. [5]
Early in his career, Chris Jay Hoofnagle wrote an article highlighting the trend of federal law enforcement to use data aggregators to collect and analyze data on citizens.[6][7] This work was featured in Robert O'Harrow's book, No Place to Hide.[8]
Most recently, Chris Jay Hoofnagle has researched the consumer protection implications of "free" online services. With co-author Jan Whittington, Chris Jay Hoofnagle published two articles on free business models: "Unpacking Privacy's Price" and "The Price of 'Free': Accounting for the Cost of the Internet's Most Popular Price".[9][10]
Chris Jay Hoofnagle is a member of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), and serves on its committee on Academic Freedom and Electronic Communications. Chris Jay Hoofnagle has been a strong critic of academic outsourcing of communications to services such as Google Apps for Education.
Denialism
Chris wrote a paper titled "Denialists' Deck of Cards: An Illustrated Taxonomy of Rhetoric Used to Frustrate Consumer Protection Efforts" in which he describes denialism as "the use of rhetorical techniques and predictable tactics to erect barriers to debate and consideration of any type of reform regardless of the facts".[11]. Chris Jay Hoofnagle has been also a strong critic of libertarian public policy groups arguing that they create outcomes that are neither pro-libertarian nor pro-consumer.
References
- ^ http://www.law.berkeley.edu/php-programs/faculty/facultyProfile.php?facID=6494
- ^ http://www.techpolicy.com/Academics/Chris-Hoofnagle.aspx
- ^ http://ssrn.com/abstract=1446862
- ^ http://ssrn.com/abstract=1898390
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/21/business/21identity.html?_r=0
- ^ http://ssrn.com/abstract=582302
- ^ http://www.dailycal.org/2012/06/26/uc-berkeley-researchers-release-web-privacy-census/
- ^ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22269-2005Jan19.html
- ^ http://ssrn.com/abstract=2059154
- ^ http://ssrn.com/abstract=2235962
- ^ http://ssrn.com/abstract=962462