Jill Bronfman
Program Director of the Privacy and Technology Project at the Institute for Innovation Law and Adjunct Professor of Law in Data Privacy
- San Francisco CA UNITED STATES
Contacts: bronfmanj@uchastings.edu / 415-565-4758 / Office 112-200
Biography
Social Media
Areas of Expertise
Accomplishments
50 Women Leaders in Tech Law
The Recorder (2014)
USC Annenberg Alumni Ambassador
2014 - 2015
Education
USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
M.A.
Communications Management
USC Gould School of Law
J.D.
Law
University of California, Berkeley
B.A.
Mass Communications and History
Media Appearances
Apple calls FBI iPhone request 'unprecedented' in court filing
Yahoo Finance online
2016-02-26
While much of Apple's argument is that the All Writs Act does not apply, the free speech and due process claims could prove helpful if the company wants to attract the attention of the Supreme Court, said Jill Bronfman, director of the Privacy and Technology Project at University of California Hastings College of the Law.
"It always does help to mention the Constitution," she said...
AT&T making it even harder for you to protect your privacy
Los Angeles Times online
2015-08-18
"The letter of the law may allow them to do things as they are now," said Jill Bronfman, director of the Privacy and Technology Project at UC Hastings College of the Law. "But the spirit of the law is that they need to offer consumer-friendly privacy options."
Seems clear that when the telecom industry speaks of "best practices," it means best for them, not you...
Can Privacy Advocates Force Google to Bring ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ to U.S.?
KQED online
2015-07-10
In a recent interview with KQED Public Radio, Jill Bronfman, director of the Privacy and Technology Project at the Institute for Innovation Law at UC Hastings, explained how Google’s system for processing individuals’ requests has worked in practice.
“They have kind of become a pseudo-government agency in the EU, where Google is actually functioning as an arbiter of public policy, deciding what should be online and what shouldn’t be online,” Bronfman said. “EU citizens are submitting requests and Google is deciding what to keep up and what to keep down. They’ve looked at over a million URLs so far.”...
SF Museum Workers Protest Thumbprint Time Clock
ABC News online
2015-02-24
"It could actually recreate someone's identify and access their place of employment, their bank records anything that is using their laptop and using fingerprinting identification for the person," said Jill Bronfman with UC Hastings College of the Law...
Selected Articles
Weathering the Nest: Privacy Implications of Home Monitoring for the Aging American Population
Duke Law & Technology Review2015
The research in this paper will seek to ascertain the extent of personal data entry and collection required to enjoy at least the minimal promised benefits of distributed intelligence and monitoring in the home. Particular attention will be given to the abilities and sensitivities of the population most likely to need these devices, notably the elderly and disabled. The paper will then evaluate whether existing legal limitations on the collection, maintenance, and use of such data are applicable to devices currently in use in the home environment and whether such regulations effectively protect privacy. Finally, given appropriate policy parameters, the paper will offer proposals to effectuate reasonable and practical privacy-protective solutions for developers and consumers.