Research, ideas, and leadership for a more secure, peaceful world
Please join us for a discussion with Professor Chris Hoofnagle on the Federal Trade Commission and Cyber.
This event is open to the public, but seating and lunch will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.
Chris Jay Hoofnagle is an adjunct full professor of information and of law at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught courses on cybersecurity, computer crime, information privacy law, education technology, the Federal Trade Commission, internet law, and on regulation of technology. An elected member of the American Law Institute, he advises emerging technology companies as of counsel to Gunderson Dettmer LLP.
Professor Hoofnagle will discuss the Federal Trade Commission, a small agency created in 1914 to address antitrust issues, now among the most important government regulators of cybersecurity. The agency has brought numerous enforcement actions alleging that companies—including IoT device makers—have acted deceptively or unfairly by building insecure products and services. This talk will trace the path of the FTC’s rise to becoming our chief consumer protection authority, the contours and limits of that power, along with the strengths and pathologies that have emerged from the agency’s case-by-case, enforcement-focused approach.
