ACLU's @granick.bsky.social was once called "the NBA all-star of surveillance law" by @wyden.senate.gov. And now, after many years, she's hanging up her jersey.
Read about her important fight over the past decade to protect our data from overbroad digital warrants. www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
Most convincing part of the New York Times piece on Satoshi:
"Like Satoshi, Mr. Back used two spaces between sentences, an outdated practice that suggests Satoshi is older than 50. Mr. Back is 55."
Indeed. Who even does that anymore?
From 2006 to 2012, I had a blog called The Shout: Opinions on Everything. Fourteen years later, The Shout is back! Same emphatic opinions, but now it's a Substack. Subscribe for my posts (free), or just tune in for awhile.
Screenshot of text that says "We’re in danger of creating a future in which our skies are dominated by surveillance and corporate drones, aerial imagery is under their control and their control only, and people can’t counter visual or other narratives with their own drone flights."
The Trump administration is pursuing a future where police and corporations control who gets to fly drones in our skies.
A new report from our privacy expert Jay Stanley breaks down this disturbing trend and what lawmakers must do to protect the public and press's right to use drones.
NEW: Apple provided the FBI with the real iCloud email address hidden behind Apple’s ‘Hide My Email’ feature, which lets paying iCloud+ users generate anonymous email addresses, according to a recently filed court record.
It has been years since I have been as excited about something as I am about this.
I was just saying the other day that 404 does fantastic reporting on the salient issues of our day and here is just another example of why everyone should subscribe.
Jennifer Granick's Facebook post from 17 years ago, reads "Jennifer Granick is now worrying about cell phone location data and the Fourth Amendment."
Seventeen years of worrying...
Let's not call a second strike to kill survivors a "double tap".
I was on a fascinating panel put on by Helen Maria Nugent at CCA about AI and Art: Contemplating an Algorithmic Future, as part of CCA's After Intelligence event.
My presentation, on AI and surveillance, is available here
after-intelligence.cca.edu/events/day-1...
Israel hacked security cameras, phones to track Khamenei - FT | Iran International share.google/YT0LnRFYKNMC...
Unlike, say, data analytics giant Palantir, Ring is a surveillance network that homeowners have by and large deployed themselves, powered by fear mongering against our neighbors and unfettered consumerism.
www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
In recent months, Google, Reddit, Discord and Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, have received hundreds of administrative subpoenas from DHS. This explosion is because they want to punish people for resisting their violent, discriminatory deportation campaign.
CIS Affiliate @granick.bsky.social reviews Orin Kerr's "The Digital Fourth Amendment," agreeing with his "equilibrium-adjustment" theory but criticizing his cautious approach to tech surveillance & his 1920s baseline that ignores racism in policing harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
I'm delighted that the Harvard Law Review has published a book review of "The Digital Fourth Amendment." The review, by @granick.bsky.social, is here.
harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
Outlook From To Date Thu 10/30/2025 10:34 AM dernbach @gmail.com> Mr. Dernbach, don't play Russian roulette with H's life. Err on the side of caution. There's a reason the US government along with many other governments don't recognise the Taliban. Apply principles of common sense and decency.
The email that launched a 99-day DHS investigation.
The investigation is over — but not the concerns it raises.
Today, at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/dhss-inves...
@orinkerr.bsky.social wrote an excellent book, The Digital Fourth Amendment, and I wrote a review of it. harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/u...
Here's where you can buy the book: a.co/d/04G3OPoz
DHS is waging a bi-coastal assault on the free speech rights of people speaking truth about power. Last fall, in a separate case, the agency unsuccessfully sought the identity of our client who discusses ICE activity on Instagram. www.aclunorcal.org/press-releas...
Bay Area friends: I'll be speaking at this California College of the Arts event tomorrow, talking about the use of AI in the criminal system. There'll be other cool speakers too. RSVP! It's free...
after-intelligence.cca.edu
ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...
Homeland Security is targeting Americans who criticize it with unfounded investigations fueled by judicially-unsupervised administrative subpoenas.
This article tells the story of our client who was so targeted.
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
It's easy to call your Senator and tell them to vote "no" on ICE funding:
act.aclu.org/a/ice-out-se...
The New York Times excels at reporting based on video analysis.
Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
The Cato Institute is hiring a full-time Executive Power Scholar:
recruiting.paylocity.com/recruiting/j...
#jobs
