Sensor Networks

A year ago was the Privacy Symposium Securing Privacy in the Internet Age, in Stanford.

One of the speakers was Pamela Samuelson, Professor of Law, Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley

And she talk about Sensor networks


"Considerable amount of R&D underway to develop tiny computers equipped with radio capabilities to sense physical phenomena and transmit data to processing points

Wide array of application domains: smart buildings that can detect internal structural damage or adjust light & heat settings, measuring weather/water info on GG Bridge/redwood trees, monitoring activities of the elderly, sensing for bioterrorism weapons"


And she talks too about CITRIS (Center for Information Technology Research in the Interests of Society at UC Berkeley)

"Technologists designing sensor and sensor network technologies are aware that deployment of such technologies raise privacy and other policy concerns

Deirdre Mulligan & I have begun work with EECS Professors David Culler, Joe Hellerstein, & David Wagner on privacy & sensor network issues"


At CITRIS web site we can see the Foundational studies address difficult common problems faced by Societal-Scale IT System (SIS) designers. These foundations include the reliability and availabilty of information systems, the privacy and security of personal data, and the underlying algorithmic problems inherent in large-scale data analysis.

Security, Privacy & Policy members:

Manuel Castells, Env. Design, UCB (and the amazing trilogy “The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture “:)

Pamela Samuelson, Law/SIMS, UCB, Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic

Doug Tygar, EECS/SIMS, UCB (with fantastic papers and books about privacy, security and trust such as this one “Privacy in Sensor Webs”)

Hal Varian, SIMS, UCB (web page) (Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy)with C.Shapiro

Karl Levitt, CS, UCD

And also available CITRIS events:

CITRIS 02
CITRIS 03
CITRIS 04