Bio
Jennifer Granick fights for civil liberties in an age of massive surveillance and powerful digital technology. As the surveillance and cybersecurity counsel with the 老澳门开奖结果 Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, she litigates, speaks, and writes about privacy, security, technology, and constitutional rights. Granick is the author of the book American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What To Do 老澳门开奖结果 It, published by Cambridge Press and winner of the 2016 Palmer Civil Liberties Prize.
Granick spent much of her career helping create Stanford Law School鈥檚 Center for Internet and Society. From 2001 to 2007, she was executive director of CIS and founded the Cyberlaw Clinic, where she supervised students in working on some of the most important cyberlaw cases that took place during her tenure. For example, she was the primary crafter of a 2006 exception to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that allows mobile telephone owners to legally circumvent the firmware locking their device to a single carrier. From 2012 to 2017, Granick was civil liberties director specializing in and teaching surveillance law, cybersecurity, encryption policy, and the Fourth Amendment. In that capacity, she has published widely on U.S. government surveillance practices and helped educate judges and congressional staffers on these issues. Granick also served as the civil liberties director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation from 2007 to 2010.
Earlier in her career, Granick spent almost a decade practicing criminal defense law in California. Granick鈥檚 work is well-known in privacy and security circles. Her keynote, 鈥淟ifecycle of the Revolution鈥 for the 2015 Black Hat USA security conference electrified and depressed the audience in equal measure. In March of 2016, she received Duo Security鈥檚 Women in Security Academic Award for her expertise in the field as well as her direction and guidance for young women in the security industry. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has called Granick an 鈥淣BA all-star of surveillance law.鈥
Featured work
Apr 2, 2021
More Surveillance Isn鈥檛 the Answer to the SolarWinds Hack
Sep 28, 2020
Wi-Fi is Another Way We Can Be Tracked 24/7
Apr 16, 2020
Apple and Google Announced a Coronavirus Tracking System. How Worried Should We Be?
Jan 23, 2020
In Latest Encryption Battle with Apple, Justice Department Still Wrong
May 21, 2019
Our Cars Are Now Roving Computers. Is The Fourth Amendment Ready?
Feb 19, 2019
If the Government Had Its Way, Everything Could be Wiretapped
Sep 13, 2018
Government Hacking Makes Everyone Less Safe