Friday Song of the Week: Johnny Copeland, Cut Off My Right Arm
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Friday Song of the Week: Johnny Copeland, Cut Off My Right Arm
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Some Supreme Court Justices think that viewing the Fourth Amendment as a right to "privacy" is an illegitimate 1960s Warren Court policy invention. But it's not: That language goes back to the beginning, as I showed in this 2022 article. scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcont...
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News coverage of CCPA decision fining GoFan for $1.1 million: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
California Privacy Protection Agency fines edtech firm GoFan $1.1 million. Failures in co's privacy statement, failure to offer adequate opt-out, failure to offer delete right.
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Friday Song of the Week: Elvis, Fairytale
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2025 annual report of the California Privacy Protection Agency has dropped. Lots going on in the Golden State regarding privacy. privacy.ca.gov/wp-content/u...
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Friday Song of the Week: Al Green, No One Like You
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(1/11) If you live in NY, youβve probably started seeing a new warning: βTHIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.β This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and itβs the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.
Position description The UC Berkeley School of Law is searching for a researcher to work with faculty doing empirical legal research. Researchers will work for 1-2 years with multiple UC Berkeley Law faculty members. Work involves potentially the full scope of activities involved in quantitative empirical scholarship: creating and cleaning datasets, writing and executing code to generate results, creating tables and figures of results, writing and presenting research papers, and generally working to assist descriptive analysis as well as the study of the effects of law and policy. Applicants will receive mentoring from faculty within a tight-knit research community at UC Berkeley Law and will have access to a broad range of activities at UC Berkeley. This is a good opportunity for candidates interested in spending 1-2 years developing research skills in anticipation of attending law school and/or PhD programs in the social sciences. As such, in addition to providing research mentorship, faculty will help researchers to engage in additional education and training, such as auditing courses, attending research seminars, etc.
Key responsibilities include: Collect data through policy research and web scraping (typically in Python) Clean and manage large datasets Conduct statistical analyses of data using Stata, R, and/or Python Prepare literature reviews, background research, and other content for grant proposals and academic papers Draft project reports, research protocols, and other project documents
Basic qualifications (required at time of application) - Bachelor's degree (or equivalent international degree) or current enrollment in a bachelor's degree (or equivalent international degree) program - Additional qualifications (required at time of start) - Bachelor's degree or equivalent international degree. Preferred qualifications - Bachelorβs or masterβs degree in economics, Finance, Political Science, Public Policy, Accounting, Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics or similar field requiring substantial quantitative coursework. Proficiency programming in more than one of Python, R, Stata, and SQL - Experience writing in Markdown and LaTeX - Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) - Prior experience as a research assistant or fellow in the fields of economics or political science is a plus.
Come work as an empirical researcher at Berkeley Law!
We are taking applications now, with a deadline of 11:59pm on March 1.
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Friday Song of the Week: Aretha Franklin, The Long and Winding Road
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United States v. Chatrie, the geofence warrant case, is now scheduled for oral argument on Monday, April 27th.
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Thank you, Aaron Alva, for an incredibly inspiring and refreshingly candid keynote. Your insights truly resonated with our audience.
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A+ in International Law
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Trump's IRS improperly shared confidential tax information of thousands of individuals with immigration enforcement officials, according to three people familiar with the situation, appearing to breach a legal fire wall intended to protect taxpayer data.
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I was so moved to see Dean Christopher Edley (1953-2024) featured prominently in the exhibit. Chris was a great person, a great lawyer, and a great Dean. May his memory be for a blessing!
Wonderful new exhibit, "Black at Berkeley Law" on the first floor @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social
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Interviewed by @nbcbayarea.com on DROP -- free tool for Californians to delete their personal information from 100s of data brokers
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Traveling in style on Amtrak to Super Bowl LX
Here's my slide comparing state-federal enforcement of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) to Batman and Superman teaming up.