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The SEC Play for a Backdoor to Your Email
The FBI demand for access to a locked iPhone by compelling Apple to write new software to undo its security features has sucked the oxygen out of the surveillan…
Electronic Surveillance
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DoJ Misleads Court on CALEA in the Apple Case
The Department of Justice (DoJ) filed its response yesterday to Apple's motion to vacate the court’s order that directed Apple to write new code and certify…
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Apple Order Would Permit Vendor-Delivered Wiretap Capability But For CALEA
Apple filed its brief yesterday to vacate the court’s order to write software to disable the security features of the iPhone so that the government could gain a…
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More CALEA and Why It Trumps the FBI's All Writs Act Order
The Director of the FBI has made an emotional appeal to get support to compel Apple to crack its own security to provide access to the locked phone it seized fr…
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Senate takes another crack at bringing email protections into 21st century
""We urge the Senate to advance this common-sense measure, which will begin the process of updating ECPA for the Internet age," wrote Richard Sal…
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CALEA Limits the All Writs Act and Protects the Security of Apple's Phones
The government filed a brief today to compel Apple to circumvent its standard security features on the iPhone the government recovered from San Bernadino terror…
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MLAT Reform and the 80% Solution - What's Good for Users?
Last week, The Washington Post reported that the US and the UK were in negotiations to permit UK law enforcement agencies to request stored communications like…
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Albert Gidari Appointed Director of Privacy at Center for Internet and Society
Stanford Law School today announced the appointment of Albert Gidari as director of privacy at the Center for Internet and Society (CIS). Gidari will lead the c…
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Crypto Policy Project
Encryption helps human rights workers, activists, journalists, financial institutions, innovative businesses, and governments protect the confidentiality, integ…
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Professors' Letter in Opposition to the "Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act" (S. 754)
Today, 21 cyberlaw and/or cybersecurity professors and researchers joined a letter calling for the Senate to reject the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (&…
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Federal Agency Lawyers Caution Senate About Electronic Privacy Changes
"Richard Salgado, Google Inc.’s law enforcement and information security director, and Chris Calabrese, vice president of the Center for Democracy & Te…
Can Americans Resist Surveillance?
Abstract This essay analyzes the ability of everyday Americans to resist and alter the conditions of government surveillance. Americans appear to have several…