Jennifer Stisa Granick (born 1969) is an American attorney and educator. Senator

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has called Granick an "NBA all-star of surveillance law." She is well known for her work with

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law,

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, and other things relating to

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, and has represented several high-profile hackers.

Early life and education

Granick was born in Glen Ridge,

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. Both of her parents were local educators. She attended

Glen Ridge High School Glen Ridge High School (GRHS) is a comprehensive six-year public middle school / high school serving students in seventh through twelfth grades from Glen Ridge, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary scho ...

and then New College in

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, from which she received a

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degree in 1990. After that, she moved to

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to attend Hastings Law School, from which she graduated in 1993.

Career

Granick began her career in criminal defense, first at the state public defender's office, then as a trial attorney at the law firm Campbell & DeMetrick. From 1996 to 2001 she worked in private practice specializing in defending cases involving

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. in 2001, Granick became the Executive Director of the Center for Internet and Society at

Stanford Law School Stanford Law School (Stanford Law or SLS) is the law school of Stanford University, a private research university near Palo Alto, California. Established in 1893, it is regarded as one of the most prestigious law schools in the world. Stanford La ...

, where she was a

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in law and taught classes on cyber law. She founded and directed the Law School's Cyberlaw Clinic where she supervised students in working on some of the most important cyberlaw cases that took place during her tenure. She was selected by Information Security magazine in 2003 as one of 20 "Women of Vision" in the computer security field. Granick has been a speaker at conferences such as

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and

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, and has also spoken at the

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as well as to other law enforcement officials. She delivered the keynote "Lifecycle of a Revolution" at the 2015 Black Hat USA conference. She was one of the primary crafters of a 2006 exception to the

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which allows mobile telephone owners to legally circumvent the firmware locking their device to a single carrier. Granick was the Civil Liberties Director at the

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from 2007 to 2010. She was then an attorney at Washington DC-based law firm Zwillinger Genetski from 2010 to 2012, and

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of Worldstar, LLC for a brief period in early 2012. In 2012, Granick returned to the Center for Internet and Society as its Civil Liberties Director, where she specialized in surveillance law. Internet activist

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sought Granick's counsel after his arrest for downloading articles from

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, for which he faced 35 years imprisonment. Granick both defended Swartz and challenged the scope of the law under which he was prosecuted. Swartz committed suicide in January 2013, two months before his trial. In 2016, Granick was honored with the Duo Security's Women in Security Academic Award. In 2017, Granick published her first book, ''American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What to Do About It''. The

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announced that Granick would be joining the organization as Surveillance and Cybersecurity Counsel in September 2017.

Writings

American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What to Do About It
Cambridge University Press, 2017
Chapter One: Legal and Ethical Issues
"Security Power Tools", 2006 * "Faking It: Calculating Loss in Computer Crime Cases"
''A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society''
''Cybersecurity'', Volume 2, Issue 2 (2006)
"The Price of Restricting Vulnerability Publications"

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* ''Circuit Court'', a bi-weekly column for ''Wired News'' * "PAS or Fail: The Use and Abuse of the Preliminary Alcohol Screening Test", ''The Champion'',

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, April 1996
"Scotty, Beam Down the Lawyers: When Free Speech Collides With Trademark Law"
''Wired'', October 1997

Selected cases and clients

* Represented

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, creator of a fake boarding pass generator, in 2006 * Represented Michael Lynn in 2005 as part of the

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/ ISS incident at the Black Hat technology conference * Represented Kevin Poulsen * Represented Jerome Heckenkamp * Represented Luke Smith and Nelson Pavlosky in ''Online Policy Group v. Diebold Election Systems'' (now

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), a copyright misuse case related to

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* Represented calculator hobbyists agains
threats from Texas Instruments
* Wrote amicus briefs regarding application of the

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in
American Airlines v. Farechase
',
United States v. Lowson
', '' United States v. Lori Drew'' * Represented

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References

External links

Jennifer Granick biography and professional blog
at Center for Internet and Society, Stanford University
Granick's personal blog, ''The Shout''

GrepLaw Cyberlawyer profile
from

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Profile
at Stanford University Law School

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