American Spies
If you attended a recent march to protest, wrote a check to the ACLU, or recently visited a politically leaning website, consider yourself an activist, says Sta…
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Ransomware attack is why we can't have security backdoors, say privacy advocates
"What happened this week won’t be lost on judges in the future should the government again try to get tech companies to build backdoor access into programs…
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Jailed for a Facebook post: how US police target critics with arrest and prosecution
"“For a country that purports to be guided by democracy and guided by civil rights, this is a very dangerous and very slippery slope,” said Malkia Cyril, t…
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How the WannaCry Attack Will Impact Cyber Security
"Meanwhile, threats of similar – or perhaps worse – attacks have continued to surface. “This was not the big one. This was a precursor of a far worse attac…
Cybercriminals have just mounted a massive worldwide attack. Here’s how NSA secrets helped them.
Computers around the world are suffering an attack from malicious software. The compromised computers have been hit by “ransomware” — software that encrypts the…
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Amazon's New Echo Device Will Be Watching
"It is inevitable Amazon and others would add a visual component to smart speakers to better monetize them, said Albert Gidari, director for privacy at Sta…
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FAN 151 (First Amendment News) Morgan Weiland Meet Ira Glasser — The First Amendment & the Liberal Dilemma
"“Expanding the Periphery and Threatening the Core: The Ascendant Libertarian Speech Tradition” is the title of a forthcoming article in the Stanford Law R…
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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…
The Antidote to Authoritarianism
My first known ancestor in the Americas was an Ashanti woman called “the African.” We don’t know her name, but through records kept by slaveholders, we know she…
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Lawyers: How can we scrutinize surveillance records that remain sealed?
"In re: Petition of Jennifer Granick and Riana Pfefferkorn to unseal technical-assistance orders and materials began last year, when the two Stanford Unive…
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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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'Sextortion' case fuels legal debate over phone passwords
"That right also applies to acts that are "testimonial" and have communicative aspects, according to Jennifer Granick, director of civil libertie…