Paul Schwartz

“As a public university, we are stewards of taxpayer resources, and a payment of this scale would completely devastate our country’s greatest public university system as well as inflict great harm on our students and all Californians.” —UC President James B. Milliken

The federal government’s demand of $1 billion from @UCLA would devastate the nation’s best public university, cut off life-saving care, halt tech and economic growth and reduce educational access.

Stand with UC to protect our vital mission: www.universityofcalifornia.edu/get-involved...

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Friday Song of the Week: Freddie King, Palace of the King
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Professor Solove's HIPAA training is concise, effective, and built to engage busy healthcare teams. Learn more: teachprivacy.com/hipaa-training

“Congressional failure to reauthorize the cyber information sharing statute would deal a considerable blow to cybersecurity efforts.” www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Join us for a fireside chat with William Kovacic, former FTC Chairman and Commissioner. Nov 12-14, 2025: www.privacysecurityacademy.com/psf-fall-aca... #privsecforum #PrivacyMatters

Levine testifies before U.S. Senate on online consumer privacy Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice Senior Fellow Samuel Levine testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law about the harms that emergin...

Samuel Levine, @ucbconsumerlaw.bsky.social Senior Fellow, testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law about harms that emerging technologies pose to consumers’ privacy & personal information: www.law.berkeley.edu/sidebar/cent... #UCBerkeleyLaw

Tracking California’s Compelling Legal History David Carrillo (J.D. ’95, LL.M. ’07, J.S.D. ’11), executive director of UC Berkeley Law’s California Constitution Center, will become editor-in-chief of California Legal History in 2026. The annual jo...

David Carrillo (J.D. ’95, LL.M. ’07, J.S.D. ’11), executive director of UC Berkeley Law’s California Constitution Center, will become editor-in-chief of California Legal History in 2026. www.law.berkeley.edu/spotlight/da... #UCBerkeleyLaw

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Friday Song of the Week: Buddy Holly, That'll Be the Day: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4Tf...
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I'm proud of my JD from UC Berkeley.

Privacy federalism or the vertical separation of informational powers (see BVerfG jurisprudence on the Census Act, though that was in a horizontal context)

States Sue Trump Administration Over Efforts to Get Food Stamp Data

Interesting & complex issues in info privacy federalism:
“States Sue Trump Administration Over Efforts to Get Food Stamp Data” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/n...

‘His life is a tribute to this country’ Driven by the motto Fiat Lux, Berkeley illuminates the world.

There is actually some good news. @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social has established a chair in civil rights law in honor of Thelton Henderson.
inspire.berkeley.edu/o/his-life-i...

5 questions for Danielle Citron

Go @daniellecitron.bsky.social! 5 Questions for Danielle Citron.

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Forthcoming March 2026

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Friday Song of the Week: Talking Heads, The Big Country
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Seven new hires bring expertise and enthusiasm across a wide range of fields Professors Brian Galle, Joy Milligan Ph.D. ’18, Bertrall Ross, and Kevin Washburn, and Associate Professor Ryan Sakoda, Assistant Professor Jason Ferguson, and Clinical Professor Alina Ball are the la...

UC Berkeley Law has once again had a banner hiring year, adding seven new professors across a wide range of fields and disciplines to an already stellar faculty: www.law.berkeley.edu/article/seve...

#UCBerkeleyLaw

Lawsuit says Clorox hackers got passwords simply by asking Bleach maker Clorox said Tuesday that it has sued information technology provider Cognizant over a devastating 2023 cyberattack, alleging that the hackers pulled off the intrusion simply by asking the...

“Bleach maker Clorox said Tuesday that it has sued information technology provider Cognizant over a devastating 2023 cyberattack, alleging that the hackers pulled off the intrusion simply by asking the tech company’s staff for employees’ passwords.” www.businessinsurance.com/lawsuit-says...

Friday song of the week: Jimmy Ruffin, What Becomes of the Broken Hearted: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJj5... #fridaysongofweek

Federal district court rules firing of FTC Commissioner to be illegal. Here's the opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Tracking Devices Were Removed From N.Y.P.D. Vehicles at Chief’s Request

On the theory of "Privacy for me, but not for thee." NY Times reports removal of tracking devices from his N.Y.P.D. Vehicles at Police Chief’s Request www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/n...

Strava and privacy: "Trying to keep fit with runs through Central Park, a jog around a tropical island and a bicycle ride around Stockholm, bodyguards in Sweden inadvertently revealed the secret locations of the Swedish leaders they were assigned to protect." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/w...

Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated).

It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings.

It has written majority opinions in only 3.

Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*

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Friday Song of the Week: Little Feat, Dixie Chicken www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z-G...
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How an LL.M. opens legal career doors in the U.S. and abroad - Nationaljurist Have you wondered what career awaits you as a foreign-trained attorney with an LL.M. earned in the United States? An...

"I believe the LL.M. from Berkeley Law tipped the scales in my favor.” - Rita Powolot LL.M. '21 on how an LL.M. opens legal career doors: nationaljurist.com/internationa... #UCBerkeleyLaw #LLM

Prof. Solove’s “Notable Privacy Books: A Journey Through History”
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Early Bird Registration – Privacy + Security Forum, Nov 12-14, 2025. Register: www.privacysecurityacademy.com/psf-fall-aca... @privsecacademy #CCPA #privacy #infosec

I may never make it to being callled a mastermind or strongman but I’ll gladly accept the tittle Crayon Historian. Thanks to a recent discovery in the book, How to Draw the World, by Philip Nel.

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Friday Song of the Week: Jonathan Richman, When I Dance
And: Happy July 4th to all!
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A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts Recent studies suggest that tools such as ChatGPT make our brains less active and our writing less original.

“A.I. suggestions “work covertly, sometimes very powerfully, to change not only what you write but what you think.” The result, over time, might be a shift in what “people think is normal, desirable, and appropriate.””
www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...