Jennifer Granick
@granick.bsky.social
Personal account. Former ACLU lawyer. From New Jersey. Living in San Francisco. New College of Florida alum. Newfie owner.
A new Substack post: Unexplored Cove. The first in a series of reviews of restaurants I never wanted to eat at. granick.substack.com/p/an-unexplo...
An Unexplored Cove
reviews of restaurants I never wanted to eat at
granick.substack.com
The doomers keep on dooming, meanwhile we stay winning victories against mass surveillance. Follow @fightforthefuture.org if you need some more hope in your life
Three San Francisco bars drop ID-verification cameras following privacy concerns
On Aug. 7, Badlands and Toad Hall announced it would pause its use of PatronScan and would check ID's manually.
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Why doesn't everyone subscribe to 404? Another example of excellent reporting.
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · last mo.New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
The trick to breaking news is to never sleep and file motions a year ago that finally bear fruit.
Court Watch@courtwatch.bsky.social · 2mo agoBREAKING - A federal judge has just ruled that 'Tower Dumps' are inherently unconstitutional. Story below, details on a case that was only unsealed because of our court motion. www.courtwatch.news/p/judge-rule...
Who are the people that San Francisco places are named for? Find out about Panos Place in the first of this series. Robots, monsters, and shipwrecks await you.
Panos Place
The first in a series celebrating commemorative naming in San Francisco
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Jake Snow@snowjake.bsky.social · 2mo agoCOME WORK at the ACLU! @aclu-norcal.bsky.social is hiring attorneys to work on tech and civil rights (my team) and the criminal legal/immigration system. These folks will work at the cutting edge of legal and policy efforts in California and beyond. Apply here: www.aclunorcal.org/jobs/staff-a...
Applications for the @aclu.org 2027-29 Brennan Fellowship are open! www.aclu.org/careers/appl... #jobs
Careers at ACLU
Join our team! We’re looking for committed, passionate people for open roles at the ACLU.
aclu.org
My take on the Supreme Court's geofence ruling: lots of ruling, not so much geofence. Read more:
Chatrie, Reverse Searches, General Warrants, and the Evolving Fourth Amendment
The Supreme Court says geofence searches are searches but remands the hard questions for the Fourth Circuit to decide.
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Today I wrote my first personal Substack post. I’m planning to visit POPOs -- San Francisco parks and plazas that anyone can go to, but which are accessible only through private property. I started with the park at Salesforce tower. 10/10: find out why open.substack.com/pub/granick/...
Salesforce park visit
The first in a series of reviews of San Francisco's Privately Owned Public Open Spaces
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Knight First Amendment Institute@knightcolumbia.org · 3mo agoInternship alert: the Knight Institute is accepting applications for its fall 2026 Research, Policy, & Communications Internship. Open to @columbiauniversity.bsky.social and @barnard-college.bsky.social students. Apply by July 17 at 5 p.m. ET: knightcolumbia.org/page/fall-20...
People say they want giant cars because they are "safer". Safer for whom? Weigh the fractional benefits to the passengers with the devastating consequences to pedestrians and bikes. No one wants to die OR kill someone else in an accident. Think about both before you buy.
The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s
The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.
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The Michigan Law Review's annual book review issue is out, which includes @mtokson.bsky.social's review of my book, "The Digital Fourth Amendment." The review is called "Fourth Amendment Anti-Theory," and it is available here, w/ the 1st 4 pages below. repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcont...
I guest-hosted @masnick.com’s podcast Ctrl-Alt-Speech. Doing anything with Mike is fun -- his expertise is unequalled. Here we talk about Internet bottlenecks and how even our vast internet can be regulated and censored if you pressure the right players. podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com/2315966/epis...
Message in a Bottleneck - Ctrl-Alt-Speech
In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by civil liberties lawyer Jennifer Granick. Together they discuss:Kickstarter rol...
podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com
New Ctrl-Alt-Speech with guest host @granick.bsky.social: Message in a Bottleneck. This week, we talk about the various bottlenecks and chokepoints on the internet: payment processors, app stores... some gov't regulators. podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com/2315966/epis...
Message in a Bottleneck - Ctrl-Alt-Speech
In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by civil liberties lawyer Jennifer Granick. Together they discuss:Kickstarter rol...
podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com
Just got back from my nephew's graduation. In a diverse class of 1000, everyone's name was pronounced correctly, thanks to AI. BlueSky's gleeful celebration of failures should be measured against the backdrop of unheralded successes and a long tradition of mangling unfamiliar names.
ICE use of Palantir systems now means agency officials effectively have a list of 20 million people readily accessible on their iPhones, increasing the speed at which ICE can find houses to raid and people to arrest. www.404media.co/ice-agents-h...
ICE Agents Have List of 20 Million People on Their iPhones Thanks to Palantir
The comments made by a senior ICE official at a trade show highlight how Palantir is increasing the speed at which ICE operates. Most people detained by ICE have no criminal conviction.
404media.co
These secret government investigations fly in the face of the Constitution www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | These secret government investigations fly in the face of the Constitution
Digital searches have become the norm for police investigations. No knock required.
washingtonpost.com
I'm honored that Dark Reading has included me as one of the top 20 impactful people in Internet security. The company I'm keeping on that list is humbling. When I started in this field, I think I was the first lawyer entirely committed to protecting hackers from legal threats.
20 Leaders Who Built the CISO Era: 2 Decades of Change
For Dark Reading's 20th birthday coverage, we profile CISOs, founders, researchers, criminals, and policymakers who rewrote the enterprise risk playbook.
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Brooke Jenkins's SF DA's office won't file conspiracy or accomplice charges against police officers who participated in and/or covered up a sexual assault, but anti-genocide protestors on the bridge face conspiracy charges carrying potentially 14 years in prison. We said this would happen.
S.F. DA declines to charge Baltimore cops following sex assault probe
In a statement, prosecutors said the office will only file charges in cases they believe they can prove a crime was committed.
sfchronicle.com
San Francisco DA Brooke Jenkins takes a law enforcement hatchet to demonstrators' rights in the streets and in the courtroom:
Jennifer Stisa Granick (@granick)
Hey San Francisco residents who voted for DA Brooke Jenkins, here's what you got: An office that thinks that people should spend 14 years in prison for closing down the GG Bridge for four hours, and t...
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My Facebook feed is now entirely Chonkers. The algorithm Knows me.
Here's a long article after a long hearing after eight years of advocacy.
Twenty-Nine Geofence Amicus Briefs, One Oral Argument, and a Whole Lot to Say
Geofence searches delight and infuriate advocates before the Supreme Court. Who was right, who was wrong, and which one could make an impact?
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I read all the amicus briefs in United States v. Chatrie, the Supreme Court geofence case, so you don’t have to. An expert agrees this is the best one: open.substack.com/pub/granick/...
Technologists' Take Account of Geofence Searches
The best brief of the twenty-seven filed in the United States v. Chatrie Supreme Court case
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Over on The Shout, I've written about what it means to me when people tout experienced and successful prosecutors for higher office: open.substack.com/pub/granick/... Take a look and consider subscribing.
