Secret F.B.I. Subpoenas Scoop Up Personal Data From Scores of Companies
"Albert Gidari, a lawyer who long represented tech and telecommunications companies and is now the privacy director at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society, said Silicon Valley had been...
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"“It’s the first time I’ve seen communities put a moratorium on the use of a surveillance technology,” says Catherine Crump, director of the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at UC...
View ArticleThe terrifying now of big data and surveillance: A conversation with Jennifer...
Concerns are growing around privacy and government surveillance in today’s hyper-connected world. Technology is smarter and faster than ever — and so are government strategies for listening in. As a...
View ArticleWilliam Barr and Winnie the Pooh
Right now, Chinese users of WeChat, an app that includes text, video, and picture messaging plus a Facebook-style news feed (among many other features), can't message each other a meme of Winnie the...
View ArticleThe Cybersecurity 202: Experts slam Justice's move to make child exploitation...
"Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at Stanford University’s Center for Internet and Society, said the strategy provided a false choice. "There’s this fundamental...
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Reply Brief to the Ninth Circuit re Motion to Unseal (Facebook Messenger)
Reply brief of Movants-Appellants EFF, ACLU, and Riana Pfefferkorn to the Ninth Circuit in our appeal from the district court's denial of our motion to unseal filings in a sealed case wherein the...
View ArticleWhat Happens When Employers Can Read Your Facial Expressions?
Facial recognition technology, once a darling of Silicon Valley with applications for policing, spying and authenticating identities, is suddenly under fire. Conservative Republicans like...
View ArticleThe Big Interception Flaw in the US-UK Cloud Act Agreement
On October 3, 2019, the United States and the United Kingdom entered into a first-of-its-kind executive agreement under the CLOUD Act. The text of the agreement was released on October 7, 2019. For a...
View ArticleUS and UK CLOUD Act Wiretapping in Third Countries: It Is a Real Problem
My blog post on the big interception flaw in the CLOUD Act and US-UK Agreement generated some interesting responses, mostly offline, arguing that it is legal for the US or UK to use providers in their...
View ArticleIs Carpenter Unemployed? Carpenter v. United States One Year Later
Increasingly, we are incorporating into our daily lives devices and services that collect metadata: from our smartphones, to our web browsers, to an ever-expanding assortment of IoT-connected...
View ArticleMeet the Center for Internet and Society
November 19, 2019 12:50 pm to 2:00 pmRSVP is required for this free event. The Center for Internet and Society (CIS) is a public interest technology law and policy program at Stanford Law School and a...
View ArticleThe Week in Tech: WhatsApp’s Spyware Fight Is at Least Good P.R.
"But not all court cases are just about getting a jury verdict. “I think it’s a sincere attempt to use the C.F.A.A. in a novel way,” said Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and...
View ArticleAfter mass shootings, Google told Congress his arrest was progress. But the...
""The technology that flags these things doesn't know the truth," said Jennifer Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel at the ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. "Whether someone...
View ArticlePolice think Amazon’s Alexa may have information on a fatal stabbing case
"From a legal perspective, the investigative practice is straightforward, said Princeton University professor Jonathan Mayer.“Law enforcement can access smart-speaker recordings after obtaining a...
View ArticleWill Big Tech’s Antitrust Moment Swing Open Encryption Backdoors?
"Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity for Stanford Law School, said antitrust suspicion and the calls for backdoors to encryption are “absolutely” tied together....
View ArticleMore Questions about the CLOUD Act and the US-UK Agreement - Can the US...
In my first blog post on the CLOUD Act and US-UK Agreement, I noted that the wiretap provision of the CLOUD Act - as opposed to the stored content provisions resolving the Microsoft Ireland case -...
View ArticleTransparency Reporting After the Cloud Act - It's Time for a Refresh
I’ve written here, here and here about the interception flaw in the US-UK Agreement under the CLOUD Act, which permits at least the UK to order US platforms to wiretap a user in a third country,...
View ArticleTool Without A Handle: “Book Review: Tools and Weapons”
Tool Without A Handle: “Book Review: Tools and Weapons”“Since the dawn of time, any tool can be used for good or ill. Even a broom can be used to sweep the floor or hit someone over the head. The...
View ArticleCan the US-UK CLOUD Act Agreement be Fixed?
I’ve written here, here, here about the interception flaw in the US-UK Agreement under the CLOUD Act, which permits at least the UK to order US platforms to wiretap a user in a third country, without...
View ArticleBanning Strong Encryption Does Not Mean Catching Criminals. It Only Makes You...
On November 17, 2019, Reuters reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had drafted a resolution for the international police organization, Interpol, that condemned strong encryption and...
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