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CIS Progress in Unsealing Surveillance Records
In September 2016, we filed a Petition in the Northern District of California (the federal district court for the Bay Area and much of Northern California) aski…
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Uber’s AI Hub in Pittsburgh Gutted a University Lab—Now It’s in Toronto
""To have 100 people [at Carnegie Mellon] and to take 40 is rather dramatic," said University of Washington law professor Ryan Calo, who co-autho…
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Internet & Jurisdiction's April in Retrospect: Blocks in Turkey, Russia and Iran, Hate Speech Bill in Debate in Germany, and More.
The April 2017 edition of Retrospect is now available. This edition brings news about blocks in Turkey, Russia and Iran, developments of a legislative effort t…
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Dear Europe: Please Don't Kill Free Speech In The Name Of 'Privacy Protection'
"Daphne Keller, who studies these things over at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society has both a larger paper and a shorter blog post…
The Antidote to Authoritarianism
My first known ancestor in the Americas was an Ashanti woman called “the African.” We don’t know her name, but through records kept by slaveholders, we know she…
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Lawyers: How can we scrutinize surveillance records that remain sealed?
"In re: Petition of Jennifer Granick and Riana Pfefferkorn to unseal technical-assistance orders and materials began last year, when the two Stanford Unive…
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In Re: Petition of Jennifer Granick and Riana Pfefferkorn
Jennifer Granick and Riana Pfefferkorn are petitioning the federal court for the Northern District of California to unseal years' worth of sealed surveillan…
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'Sextortion' case fuels legal debate over phone passwords
"That right also applies to acts that are "testimonial" and have communicative aspects, according to Jennifer Granick, director of civil libertie…
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NSA’s Data Collection Pullback Isn’t as Big a Deal as You Think
"“This is a more focused policy by the NSA. It aims to restrict upstream collection to only those communications that directly involve a foreign intelligen…
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The New FISA Reform Still Doesn’t Protect Your Privacy
"And as Jennifer Granick notes in her excellent new book American Spies, executive-branch claims that Section 702 has been vital to preventing terrorist at…
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Police Chief Claims He 'Misspoke' After Body Cam Contradicts Account of Black Teen's Killing
"Harlan Yu, a tech policy researcher and co-author of the Body Worn Camera scorecard, a 2016 report rating body camera policies for different police depart…
Techdirt Podcast Episode 120: The Surveillance State
In the post-Snowden era, we don't have to tell you how important it is to stay engaged with (and vigilant about) the surveillance state in America. Jennifer…