Status update: Facebook users now have access to PGP encryption
Today Facebook announced on its blog a new set of features adding support for the PGP email encryption system. The changes allow users to post their public emai…
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Sunset of Section 215 Means All Eyes on USA FREEDOM Act
"“This shows that there’s a really serious lack of consensus as to what the government surveils in our name, and what we really want as Americans,” Granick…
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CPJ welcomes Facebook move to add PGP encryption features
""Security tools like PGP encryption are most effective when they are used widely," said CPJ Internet Advocacy Coordinator Geoffrey King. "F…
The Dread Pirate Roberts was as much lawmaker as lawbreaker
Ross Ulbricht, who called himself the Dread Pirate Roberts and created the Silk Road online drugs market, has just been sentenced to life in prison. In a letter…
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Threatened Online? Supreme Court Says Prosecutors Must Prove Intent
""The court doesn't answer the question, whether if you know there is a substantial likelihood you're scaring the living daylights out of some…
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Former Tiversa employee at center of House probe of Pittsburgh firm
"It might be a valuable function to discover that a company's secret information has been disclosed, but it's harder to make a case for what to do…
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For the First Time Since 9/11, Congress Checks the Security State
"Stanford legal scholar Jennifer Granick wrote before Sunday’s vote that the Senate shouldn’t rush to pass the Freedom Act as is. It “was negotiated at a t…
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Thinking About State and Local Government Cyber Security Exercises: Insights from INCIBE in Spain
Serious cyber attacks and incidents – the kind that have serious long-term consequences - are, thankfully, relatively rare in most state and local governments.…
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Washington wisdom on data collection shown up by Justice Department verdict
"“The American people have learned the hard way to be skeptical of such scare-mongering,” said Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at Stanford Un…
The long arms of the right to be forgotten
"A year ago, a European Court said people had a right to demand Google take down certain search results about them. Theright to be forgotten was born. “Th…
A Sunset Is A Beautiful Thing
In the wake of a recent appellate court’s decision that the NSA’s domestic dragnet collection of phone call records is illegal, political support for maintainin…
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Why Surveillance Matters (to All of Us)
The current debate in Congress over whether to allow Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act to expire has revived the interest of many in the question of surveillan…