If Bruce Schneier ran the NSA, he’d ask a basic question: “Does it do any good?”
"Jennifer Granick was the first to admit that it’s difficult to know what reforms are necessary because as Schneier pointed out, it’s impossible to know what precisely is being undertaken by the NSA...
View ArticleSnowden's actions will change the Internet forever
"As Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at the Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, put it recently: “America invented the Internet, and our Internet companies are dominant...
View ArticleAre Internet Backbone Pen Registers Constitutional?
"The ruling in Smith has been widely and justly condemned—and as Jennifer Granick has ably argued here, is of dubious relevance to NSA’s bulk collection program anyway. "Original Publication: Just...
View ArticleWe All Go Down Together: NSA Programs Overseas Violate Americans’ Privacy,...
Cross-posted from Just Security.Ongoing revelations show that significant NSA surveillance activities take place outside of either Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) or congressional...
View ArticleWe All Go Down Together: NSA Programs Overseas Violate Americans’ Privacy,...
Cross-posted from Just Security.Ongoing revelations show that significant NSA surveillance activities take place outside of either Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) or congressional...
View ArticleNew FISC Pen Register Opinion: It’s Just a Matter of Time Before Somebody...
Cross-posted from Just Security.Once again, the NSA has conducted illegal spying. New documents reveal the National Security Agency’s (NSA) systemic violation of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court...
View ArticleCan an American be investigated for terrorism merely for expressing support...
"“So people who are entirely innocent can be investigated under this statute,” said Jennifer Granick, director of Civil Liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, who wrote a blog post...
View ArticleYahoo! End-to-End email preview promises greater protection for journalists
Good news for journalists wanting added protection from surveillance. Yahoo! hasannounced a technical preview of its email security tool End-to-End, which it has been developing in collaboration with...
View ArticleACLU v. Clapper Will End the Telephone Dragnet
Cross-posted from Just Security. Last week’s dramatic Second Circuit decision in ACLU v. Clapper, invalidated the alleged legal basis for the NSA domestic phone call dragnet, Section 215 of the USA...
View ArticleNSA ruling reveals the harm of secrecy to the nation
"“It shows how ineffective secret proceedings are for interpreting law,” said Jennifer Granick, a Stanford law lecturer and civil liberties director at the law school’s Center for Internet and Society....
View ArticleOverseas Surveillance in an Interconnected World: Understanding Executive...
March 17, 2016 4:00 pmPresented by: Just Security & The Brennan Center for JusticeSpeakers: Neema Singh Guliani, Legislative Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union; Deborah Pearlstein, Associate...
View ArticleAmerica’s founders hated general warrants. So why has the government...
Laura Donohue is a professor of law at Georgetown University and was recently appointed as a public advocate to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. She is also the author of a new book...
View ArticleCorrecting the Record on Section 702: A Prerequisite for Meaningful...
The legal authority behind the controversial PRISM and Upstream surveillance programs used by the NSA to collect large swaths of private communications from leading Internet companies – Section 702 of...
View ArticleYahoo Said to Have Aided U.S. Email Surveillance by Adapting Spam Filter
"“This is another example of how the government is pushing secretly novel or innovative interpretations of surveillance law” to conduct wiretapping in broader ways than the public realizes, said...
View ArticleReforming Surveillance In the Age of Donald Trump
On Wednesday, the Republican chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes (R-CA), gave a press conference in which he reported that Trump transition team members’ communications were...
View ArticleToday’s ODNI and Section 702 News
Today, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) announced that it would stop some of the surveillance it conducts on the telecommunications backbone under authority granted by section...
View ArticleNew FISC Pen Register Opinion: It’s Just a Matter of Time Before Somebody...
Cross-posted from Just Security.Once again, the NSA has conducted illegal spying. New documents reveal the National Security Agency’s (NSA) systemic violation of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court...
View ArticleToday’s ODNI and Section 702 News
Today, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) announced that it would stop some of the surveillance it conducts on the telecommunications backbone under authority granted by section...
View ArticleNew FISC Pen Register Opinion: It’s Just a Matter of Time Before Somebody...
Cross-posted from Just Security.Once again, the NSA has conducted illegal spying. New documents reveal the National Security Agency’s (NSA) systemic violation of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court...
View ArticleToday’s ODNI and Section 702 News
Today, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) announced that it would stop some of the surveillance it conducts on the telecommunications backbone under authority granted by section...
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