Jennifer Granick

Position / Title:

Director of Civil Liberties

Links:

Website

Twitter

Contact:

jennifer at law dot stanford dot edu

Focus Areas:

Intermediary Liability

Areas of Expertise:

Jennifer Granick is the Director of Civil Liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. Jennifer returns to Stanford after working with the internet boutique firm of Zwillgen PLLC. Before that, she was the Civil Liberties Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Jennifer practices, speaks and writes about computer crime and security, electronic surveillance, consumer privacy, data protection, copyright, trademark and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. From 2001 to 2007, Jennifer was Executive Director of CIS and taught Cyberlaw, Computer Crime Law, Internet intermediary liability, and Internet law and policy. Before teaching at Stanford, Jennifer spent almost a decade practicing criminal defense law in California. She was selected by Information Security magazine in 2003 as one of 20 "Women of Vision" in the computer security field. She earned her law degree from University of California, Hastings College of the Law and her undergraduate degree from the New College of the University of South Florida.

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My Comments On NSA Spying to PCLOB

By Jennifer Granick • April 10, 2014 at 3:51 pm

Today I filed comments with the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) in connection with its hearing on section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act. That law is the legal basis for the PRISM surveillance program and involves warrantless collection of communications contents via targeting non-U.S. individuals or entities reasonably believed to be located abroad. I've written previously about questions the PCLOB should investigate with regards to section 702. Read more » about My Comments On NSA Spying to PCLOB

Big Privacy Win in the EU

By Jennifer Granick • April 8, 2014 at 9:17 am

Today, the European Court of Justice struck down the European Union’s 2006 Data Retention Directive. That policy required member states to force communications companies to store citizens' telecommunications data for six to 24 months. Read more » about Big Privacy Win in the EU

Huawei Hacking is a Security Scandal

By Jennifer Granick • March 25, 2014 at 12:16 pm

Last week, the New York Times reported that the U.S. is spying on router company Huawei to get information about the Chinese government and to learn how to surveil our allies and other countries that might purchase Huawei routers. On Just Security, I refute the argument of some that it is not “in the public interest to reveal how democracies spy on dictatorships”. Read more » about Huawei Hacking is a Security Scandal

Government Threats To The Internet: Commentary on the Drummond Talk

By Jennifer Granick • February 24, 2014 at 6:00 am

The Internet is under threat, mostly from governments. We need companies to help people stand up to government threats, but companies cannot solve the problems for us. This is what I told the audience on Thursday, at an event co-hosted by CIS and the Program on Liberation Technology. Read more » about Government Threats To The Internet: Commentary on the Drummond Talk

Eight Questions On Mass Surveillance For The PCLOB

By Jennifer Granick • February 11, 2014 at 12:22 pm

Tomorrow, all five members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about their recent report concluding that the National Security Agency’s (NSA) bulk collection of phone records under section 215 is illegal and ill-advised. Meanwhile, the PCLOB is gearing up to report in a few months its conclusions regarding mass surveillance of the content of Internet transactions under section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act Read more » about Eight Questions On Mass Surveillance For The PCLOB