Privacy at Berkeley
The UC Berkeley Privacy Office is the focal point for campus privacy issues. The Privacy Office strives to protect and promote UC Berkeley’s privacy values through a unified and comprehensive privacy program, and oversees institutional compliance with federal and state privacy regulations, as well as campus and UC policy.
"Privacy is fundamental to the University... Academic and intellectual freedoms are values of the academy that help further the mission of the University. These freedoms are most vibrant where individuals have autonomy: where their inquiry is free because it is given adequate space for experimentation and their ability to speak and participate in discourse within the academy is possible without intimidation. Privacy is a condition that makes living out these values possible." *
The work of the Privacy Office is organized around four program areas:
- Compliance – Oversight of our legal, regulatory, and contractual privacy obligations
- Policy/Governance – Establishing direction, responsibilities, and intended outcomes in privacy, also interpreting privacy policy and managing the investigation of reported violations
- Outreach – Educating our internal community to establish expectations and promote awareness, as well as external communications and collaboration
- Privacy by Design – Align campus practices with stated privacy values by building privacy safeguards into campus administrative processes.
Further reading:
- History of UC Berkeley Privacy Values
- UC Statement of Privacy Values and UC Privacy Principles
- Privacy vs. Privacy (2015 article by Privacy Officer Lisa Ho)
*Executive summary, Privacy and Information Security Initiative Steering Committee Report to the President, University of California, 2013