Sensor Networks

Networked sensors will revolutionize how information is gathered and transmitted in both highly technical, scientific applications as well as objects that will touch people in their everyday lives. While this technology holds great promise for society, sensor networks also have the potential to be highly invasive, collecting personally identifiable or otherwise private information in new contexts.

The Clinic is actively studying privacy in emerging sensor networks, such as video surveillance systems, and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) enabled objects. Though this work we aim to influence the design of sensor technologies in socially appropriate and privacy respecting ways.

Project Title	Year	Project Type
Clinic co-releases report evaluating the effectiveness of the City of San Francisco's Surveillance Camera Program	2009	Report
Samuelson Clinic Researcher Presents Case Study on the Adoption of RFID Technology in the US e-Passport	2007	Research Paper
Demand Response Energy Systems: Security, Privacy, and Policy	2007	Presentation
Samuelson Clinic Researcher Presented Work on RFID Technology at O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference	2006	Presentation
Samuelson Clinic Director Testified Before Department of Homeland Security on Expectations of Privacy in Public Spaces	2006	Testimony
Samuelson Clinic Students Assisted the Constitution Project in Preparing Guidelines for Video Surveillance	2006	Report
Samuelson Clinic Director, Fellow Participated at Computers, Freedom & Privacy Conference	2006	Presentation
Network Security Architecture for Demand Response/Sensor Networks	2006	Report
Clinic Submits Comments to U.S. Department of State on Electronic Passports on behalf of Eight Leading Computer Scientists and Engineers	2005	Comments
Radio Frequency Identification and Privacy with Information Goods	2004	Presentation | Research Paper
Ubiquitous Computing: RFID and Information Goods	2003-2004	Research Paper