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Law, Borders, and Speech: Law Enforcement Access to User Data
This piece is exerpted from the Law, Borders, and Speech Conference Proceedings Volume. The conference, convened by Stanford's Center for Internet and Socie…
Crypto Policy Project
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New Article in the Connecticut Law Review
My article Everything Radiates: Does the Fourth Amendment Regulate Side-Channel Cryptanalysis?, 49 Conn. L. Rev. 1393 (2017), has recently been published by the…
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Thoughts on the Manhattan DA’s Latest Report on Encryption
In November 2017, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office released its third annual report on smartphone encryption, available in PDF here. I appreciate that t…
The Rhetoric of “Responsible Encryption”
Last week, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein gave a speech about encryption that prompted a considerable amount of well-deserved blowback. His speech rehas…
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A Response to “Responsible Encryption”
On October 10, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein gave a speech at the U.S. Naval Academy about encryption. I have a lot to say about his remarks, so this w…
Everything Radiates: Does the Fourth Amendment Regulate Side-Channel Cryptanalysis?
Abstract Encryption shields private information from malicious eavesdroppers. After years of slow adoption, encryption is finally becoming widespread in consum…
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The "Going Dark" Debate: No News Isn’t Necessarily Good News
This year’s Black Hat USA conference is currently underway in Las Vegas. Last year, Jennifer Granick and I spoke at Black Hat about handling technical assistanc…
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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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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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Encryption Policy in the Modern Age: A Not So Simple Debate
"Jennifer Granick, director of Civil Liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, explained that separating the needs of law enforcement from…
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Apple v. FBI
Arguing that if the court should not compel Apple to create software to enable unlocking and search of the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, it will jeopardize d…
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Stanford Researchers Seek Court Documents Ordering Companies to Help Government Defeat Encryption
Researchers at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society (CIS) filed a petition yesterday seeking to unseal judicial records in San Francisco federal distric…