Computer security is necessary for journalist safety
EDITOR'S NOTE: This article was originally published, in Spanish, in El País. This week, journalists, technologists, and other human rights advocates will…
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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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Apple privacy battle with Washington looms as watershed moment
“There are a lot of ways in which the debate over the past year and a half has been déjà vu all over again,” says Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow at St…
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Apple May Use a First Amendment Defense in That FBI Case. And It Just Might Work
"“The human equivalent of the company signing code is basically saying, ‘We believe that this code is safe for you to run,'” says Jennifer Granick, dir…
Bloomberg Law Brief: Apple Invokes First Amendment
Bloomberg Law Brief with June Grasso. Andrea Matwyshyn, a law professor at Northeastern University, and Nate Cardozo, a lawyer at the Electronic Frontier Founda…
The iPhone Case and the Future of Civil Liberties
It is not often that a legal battle over smartphone firmware captures the national imagination, but such is the case as the FBI tries to access the data contain…
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Should Apple Help Customers Hide Personal Info From Government?
""Can you force Apple to design their product in a particular way and that also could have a speech component?" wondered Ryan Calo, an assistant…
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Analyzing Apple’s Argument That First Amendment Applies to Its Code
"“Apple goes pretty far by saying its software has a viewpoint,” said Ryan Calo, an assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Law. “Tha…
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Google, Facebook Among Those Preparing To Sign Court Filing In Support Of Apple
"“I think it’s fair to say there’s an extraordinary amount of support for Apple right now,” said Andrew Bridges, a partner at the law firm Fenwick & We…
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Apple: Law enforcement seeks ‘dangerous power’ in iPhone case
"“The argument spells out pretty much as expected,” said Andrea Matwyshyn, a law professor at Northeastern University. She brought up Apple’s claim that i…
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Reflections on the FBI's Attempt to Dragoon Apple Into Subverting iPhone Security
On Monday, I wrote a post for Just Security where I reflected on last week's news concerning the FBI's attempts to coerce Apple into creating a forensic…
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Technologists' Brief in Wikimedia v. NSA
Today, the Stanford Center for Internet and Society and attorney Matthew J. Craig of Shapiro Arato LLP filed an amicus brief on behalf of Internet networking ex…