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Bring AFP 'to heel' or forget US security agreement
"Stanford University academic Riana Pfefferkorn said "unprecedented" police raids on the press had made it harder for Australia to assure securit…
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Australia's anti-encryption laws being used to bypass journalist protections, expert says
"This undermined protections granted to journalists under other national security legislation, said cybersecurity researcher Riana Pfefferkorn, an associat…
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Encryption law making life harder for journalists: claim
"Dr Pfefferkorn, who works with the Stanford Centre for Internet and Society, but made her submission in an individual capacity, said the Australian Federa…
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Expert: The AFP used our new anti-encryption laws to raid the ABC
"As The Guardian has already noted, cybersecurity expert Riana Pfefferkorn has taken umbrage with the process, adding a personal submission to the parliame…
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Australia’s anti-encryption bill is allowing the government to openly spy on journalists
"Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at Stanford Center for Internet and Society, pointed out that this undermines the…
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What Does Chalking Tires Have To Do With The Fourth Amendment?
"To those within and without the legal profession, the ruling is strange. "It's an interesting and unusual case," says Stephen Smith, retired…
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Attacking a Pay Wall That Hides Public Court Filings
"“Federal courts need to be providing this access without charge,” said Stephen W. Smith, who was until recently a federal magistrate judge in Houston and…
Brief of Retired Federal Judges as Amici Curiae in Support of Neither Party
Amicus curiaei brief of retired judges, including CIS Director of Fourth Amendment and Open Courts, in the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in a case ch…
Brief of Amici Curiae Former U.S. Magistrate Judges in Support of Petitioners
Amicus brief of former magistrate judges, including CIS Director of Fourth Amendment and Open Courts Stephen Wm. Smith, in support of Petitioners-Appellants Jas…
The Carpenter Chronicle: A Near-Perfect Surveillance
On May 24, 1844, a crowd gathered inside the United States Supreme Court chambers in the basement of the Capitol, eagerly awaiting a demonstration of an amazing…
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Apple Watch’s new auto-911 calls after falls may tumble into legal trouble
""One of the interesting things here is that, whenever there's a change in the technology, it creates an inadvertent Fourth Amendment question,&qu…
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Stanford Law School Appoints Judge Stephen Smith as Director of Fourth Amendment & Open Courts at the Center for Internet and Society
Stanford Law School today announced the appointment of retired Federal Judge Stephen Wm. Smith as Director, Fourth Amendment & Open Courts at the Center for…