Privacy, Cybersecurity and Content Regulation

Companies and innovators in the San Francisco Bay Area continue to surface new legal questions about privacy and cybersecurity. And California privacy laws have been a model for the world. With that kind of local backdrop, Berkeley Law and the BCLT faculty codirectors have established themselves as the go-to experts on privacy and cybersecurity topics.

Our faculty includes internationallyrecognized data experts with concentrations spanning comparative privacy law, consumer privacy, computer crime, and the law of government surveillance. Our research has played a major role in the development of privacy and cybersecurity regulations worldwide. Berkeley Law students have the opportunity to immerse themselves in over a dozen classes focused on privacy and cybersecurity issues.

“With the enactment of the California Consumer Privacy Act, California is now an epicenter for privacy developments. And BCLT has an unparalleled group of experts in every aspect of privacy and cybersecurity law, including Ken Bamberger, Catherine Crump, Chris Hoofnagle, Orin Kerr, Deirdre Mulligan, Andrea Roth, Jennifer Urban, Rebecca Wexler, and myself. [In 2021], BCLT’s own Professor Urban [was] named as the chair of the new California Privacy Protection Agency. Along with four other experts, she will be members of a board of a new administrative agency responsible for protecting the privacy rights of consumers. Berkeley Law is an incredibly exciting place for all those interested in tech and law.”

- Paul Schwartz, Jefferson E. Peyser Professor of Law and BCLT Faculty Director

Advanced IT Contracts: Drafting and Negotiating Advanced Samuelson Clinic & Seminar California Privacy Law Computer Crime Law Cybersecurity Law and Policy Future of Cybersecurity Workshop Information Privacy Law Law and Technology Writing Workshop Privacy Counseling and Compliance Samuelson Clinic & Seminar Secrecy: The Use and Abuse of Information Control in the Courts Technology for Lawyers Topics in Privacy and Security Law

Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Law

Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic and Clinical Professor of Law

Teaching professor in the School of Law, with a dual appointment in the School of Information

William G. Simon Professor of Law

Professor in the School of Information and the School of Law

Robert and Nanci Corson Assistant Professor of Law

Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law and Information

Jefferson E. Peyser Professor of Law

Associate Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, Assistant Clinical Professor

Clinical Professor of Law and the Director of Policy Initiatives for the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic

Assistant Professor of Law

15th Annual BCLT Privacy Lecture: Playing the Long Game Prof. Joseph Turow, Annenberg School for Communications, University of Pennsylvania October 14, 2022 Encouraging public acceptance of deeply rooted commercial surveillance within U.S. society has become a crossgenerational project. Professor Joseph Turow’s industry research and survey work over the past three decades has convinced him that academics, activists, and government policymakers have been ignoring a critical development: The convergence of key practices in the family, education, the law and other institutions with widespread strategies among marketers suggest that deeply personalized data use will be an even more taken-for granted part of future generations than it is today. Prescribing realistic solutions to this discriminatory dynamic that can fracture society is a key challenge of our age. 10th Annual BCLT Privacy Law Forum February 24, 2022; Online Bridging academia and practice, this fullday conference brings together in-house counsel from leading tech companies, practicing lawyers, regulators, privacy advocates, and academics. Faculty from Berkeley Law share their latest research and analysis, and leading privacy experts from law firms, companies, and government agencies will offer fresh insight and practical advice on meeting urgent privacy challenges.

14th Annual BCLT Privacy Lecture: Policing Families Prof. Dorothy E. Roberts October 28, 2021; Online In our 2021 BCLT Privacy Lecture, Prof. Roberts explores themes from her forthcoming book on family policing. As predictive technologies are integrated into the child protection services and foster care systems, her analysis of the nature and impact of government surveillance on families will be especially timely.