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For the most recent event in our series on data scraping and privacy, Paul Ohm, Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, talked with Berkeley Law Professor Tejas Narechania about “desirable inefficiency,” an emerging and underappreciated approach to digital system design.
The University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) is accepting applications for our third annual Cybersecurity Arts Contest. We seek work in any medium that engages substantively with cybersecurity in themes, topics, audience, and/or materials. Submissions must be formatted as a video (5 minutes or less in duration) accessible…
CLTC is excited to welcome two new members to our team: Sarah Powazek will be our first-ever Program Director of Public Interest Cybersecurity, and Hanlin Li will be a Visiting Scholar this fall and a Postdoctoral Scholar starting in 2023. Click through to read Q&As with Sarah and Hanlin.
Small organizations — such as non-governmental organizations (NGOs); state, local, tribal, and territorial government organizations (SLTTs); and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) — often struggle to protect themselves and their beneficiaries in cyberspace. Meanwhile, startups and technology companies have unique expertise that can help the smaller organizations address some of…
CLTC grantees David Ng and Jacky Ho used a crowdsourcing platform to launch a contest for game developers. The challenge: create online games to teach basic principles of cybersecurity.
Six UC Berkeley graduate students have been selected to join the AI Policy Hub, an interdisciplinary center focused on translating scientific research into governance and policy frameworks to shape the future of artificial intelligence (AI). The students will conduct research on a specialized topic related to AI, and develop recommendations to help policymakers and other AI decision-makers act with foresight.
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA – Craig Newmark Philanthropies (CNP), the grantmaking organization launched by the founder of craigslist, has announced a three-year, $1.725M commitment to support the newly established Consortium of Cybersecurity Clinics, a network of organizations working to expand cybersecurity clinics at colleges and universities in the U.S. and around the…
This Monday, July 25, Rachael Cornejo, an alumni of Citizen Clinic, will speak on a panel on media representation of women in the cybersecurity field. We interviewed Cornejo about how her experience at Citizen Clinic led to her current career as a cybersecurity professional.
The Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity is proud to support the research of postdoctoral researchers from diverse disciplines. Two of these scholars recently accepted tenure-track positions at major universities. This fall, Richmond Wong will be joining Georgia Tech’s School of Literature, Media and Communication as an Assistant Professor, and Sophia Baik…
This piece was originally published by Rachel Leven of the UC Berkeley Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) here. The U.S. constitution grants citizens a right to privacy. But in this new era where our lives increasingly include computers and data capture, legislators, regulators and others are…
The Master of Information and Cybersecurity (MICS) program at UC Berkeley ranked #1 among online cybersecurity master’s degree programs, according to an analysis by Fortune magazine released on June 30, 2022. This is Fortune’s first-ever ranking of online master’s degree programs in cybersecurity, inspired by the demand in the cybersecurity job market. The ranking methodology is…
On June 8, Google Cloud hosted a panel discussion focused on the improving diversity in the cybersecurity workforce, featuring Ann Cleaveland, Executive Director of CLTC; Larry Whiteside, Chief Security Officer for Women’s Care Enterprises and Co-Founder and President of Cyversity; and Ron Duhart, Vice President and Deputy Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Walmart.
The rapid evolution of data scraping technologies — the automated retrieval of data from websites using software or technical tools — are forcing us to reconsider some evergreen questions: What content is public? What is private? How do we decide? On June 3, 2022, CLTC brought together a pair of…
The latest video in the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity’s “What? So What? Now What” explainer series focuses on “Zero Trust,” an approach to digital security that is becoming an industry standard because it is well-suited for for the era of cloud computing.
The Consortium of Cybersecurity Clinics has launched a new website (https://cybersecurityclinics.org) that aims to help universities in the U.S. and around the world to share insights and best practices for launching and operating a cybersecurity clinic.
Diverse processes and practices have been developed in recent years for documenting artificial intelligence (AI), with a shared aim to improve transparency, safety, fairness, and accountability for the development and uses of AI systems. On May 25, 2022, CLTC’s AI Security Initiative presented an online panel discussion on the…
Cybersecurity clinics, like clinics in law and medicine, train university students to provide digital security assistance to outside organizations with limited resources. Cybersecurity clinics provide the students with valuable real-world experience while providing vital support to their public interest clients. Yet the process of starting and operating a cybersecurity clinic…