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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…
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NSA’s Data Collection Pullback Isn’t as Big a Deal as You Think
"“This is a more focused policy by the NSA. It aims to restrict upstream collection to only those communications that directly involve a foreign intelligen…
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The New FISA Reform Still Doesn’t Protect Your Privacy
"And as Jennifer Granick notes in her excellent new book American Spies, executive-branch claims that Section 702 has been vital to preventing terrorist at…
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Police Chief Claims He 'Misspoke' After Body Cam Contradicts Account of Black Teen's Killing
"Harlan Yu, a tech policy researcher and co-author of the Body Worn Camera scorecard, a 2016 report rating body camera policies for different police depart…
Techdirt Podcast Episode 120: The Surveillance State
In the post-Snowden era, we don't have to tell you how important it is to stay engaged with (and vigilant about) the surveillance state in America. Jennifer…
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The GDPR and National Legislation: Relevant Articles for Private Platform Adjudication of “Right to Be Forgotten” Requests
In a recent blog post, I discuss the role of EU Member State laws in defining and enforcing the “Right to Be Forgotten” (RTBF) under the EU’s new General Data P…