Mr. Chris Jay Hoofnagle, Esq. is senior staff attorney with the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic and senior fellow with the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. His focus is consumer privacy law. Previously, he was senior counsel to the Electronic Privacy Information Center and director of the organization's West Coast office. He was also a non-residential fellow with Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society for the 2005 academic year.
Among his recent academic publications are Identity Theft: Making the Unknown Knowns Known, in the Harvard Journal on Law and Technology; Putting Identity Theft on Ice: Freezing Credit Reports to Prevent Lending to Impostors, Stanford University Press; A Model Regime of Privacy Protection, in the University of Illinois Law Review (with J. Solove); and Big Brother's Little Helpers: How ChoicePoint and Other Commercial Data Brokers Collect, Process, and Package Your Data for Law Enforcement, in the North Carolina Journal of International Law & Commercial Regulation.