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"Two civil rights lawyers, Jennifer Granick and Christopher Sprigman, wrote a post in Forbes that lays out a description of NSA domestic spying, it's implications, and why everyone should be fuming mad at the whole practice and everyone involved." Read more about Explanation Yet For Why Everyone Should Be Fuming At The NSA
"This court has evolved to serve a very different role than when it began," said Jennifer Granick, a lawyer at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. "It is now making secret interpretations of the law, and no judge, and no court, should play that role."
"We need a public debate if we are going to switch to a mass surveillance policy," Sprigman said. "Congress needs to decide — in public — whether it is worth surveilling everyone. This shouldn't be decided in a secret court." Read more about Secret surveillance court overhaul is urged
"JENNIFER GRANICK: I don't think that the companies are in the position to well safeguard our privacy and Fourth Amendment rights." Read more about Calls Grow For Overhaul Of Government Surveillance Programs
""This is one of those unanswered legal questions: Is there any circumstance under which they could get password information?" said Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society. "I don't know."" Read more about Feds tell Web firms to turn over user account passwords
"Whether the government could obtain a user's login information with a wiretap order is an "unanswered legal question" in the United States, says Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society. "I think the answer would depend in part on whether decryption could be called a current capability of the provider -- or requires reengineering of the service."" Read more about Google tests encryption to protect users' Drive files against government demands
'"At first, we didn't think it posed much of a privacy problem," Crump said. The ACLU saw a system that triggered a real-time alert to the presence of a stolen vehicle, or a car linked to a fugitive, and that seemed acceptable. But then the group realized police were storing the license plate scans — whether or not there had been a "hit."" Read more about Police May Know Exactly Where You Were Last Tuesday
Jennifer Granick's opinion piece "The Criminal NSA" co-authored with CIS affiliate scholar Christopher Sprigman has been published in the New York Times.
"Since the reports don't break out the number of requests by category, they're only somewhat helpful, said privacy advocates. "To lump all the requests together tells us something about government access, but to separate them would tell us something more worthwhile," said Jennifer Stisa Granick at the Stanford law school's Center for Internet and Society." Read more about Apple joins other tech companies in detailing government requests for data
"Ryan Calo, an assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle and an expert on privacy issues, said that limited, public knowledge of NSA surveillance may take a psychological toll on some U.S. citizens. “I believe the resulting discomfort and fear – the state of oblique awareness without really knowing the details – constitutes a form of privacy harm,” he told IPS." Read more about NSA Leaks Prompt Lawsuit and U.N. Action
