Eric Chan

Eric Chan lived his entire life in Los Angeles, California before heading to the World Class Law School in Paradise. He studied Cybernetics with a concentration in Bioinformatics at UCLA. For many years, Eric was the creator and webmaster for the award-winning website, The Eric Channel. Eric is a lifelong Macintosh fan and thinks Windows XP boxes are soulless productivity killers.

Along with fellow 3L Henry Huang, Eric is 2006-2007 co-Editor-in-Chief of the Stanford Technology Law Review.

4th Amendment Symposium Audio available

By Eric Chan on February 26, 2007 at 12:19 am

Audio from our January symposium, Search and Seizure in the Digital Age, is available for three of the five speaker panels.

Freiwald panel: Jennifer Granick (CIS), Orin Kerr (G.W.), Erin Murphy (Boalt)
Ohm panel: Lauren Gelman (CIS), Don Dripps (San Diego), Richard Downing (CCIPS)
Ozer panel: Bob Weisberg (SLS), Alexandra Natapoff (Loyola), David Molnar (Bekerley)

In particular, some of you have been asking for the audio from Professor Ohm's panel, as comments made during that discussion engendered a bit of controversy about DOJ's wiretap minimization practices. Read more about 4th Amendment Symposium Audio available

Photos from Digital Privacy Symposium

By Eric Chan on January 30, 2007 at 9:34 pm

I have posted pictures from our live symposium event last Friday on my Flickr page. Thanks to everyone who helped make the event a success!

Also, thanks to Lauren for pointing out this article, which mentions the symposium in a c|net News article about FBI wiretapping methods. Read more about Photos from Digital Privacy Symposium

that was random

By Eric Chan on January 26, 2007 at 5:42 pm

At the end of our last panel, an older gentleman walked into the room, introduced himself as a Berkeley graduate, and proceeded to engage in an entirely off-topic tirade against "the establishment." He eventually stopped and now is sitting amicably in his seat.

Wait -- he got up again and wants to participate further -- wait, Kevin Bankston has dibs on the microphone. Phew. Read more about that was random

nice quote

By Eric Chan on January 26, 2007 at 5:20 pm

There's always another perspective we have to consider in the privacy debate. Matt Lamberti, Asst. U.S. Attorney, just noted that "when you talk about things being creepy.. well that's what I do every day." Can we strike a balance between the needs of law enforcement and assuaging our own fears and concerns as citizens? Read more about nice quote

some themes today

By Eric Chan on January 26, 2007 at 3:43 pm

For all of the high-level discussion of fourth amendment doctrine today, a couple of more concrete themes have struck me as particularly salient today: Read more about some themes today

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