iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jennifer Granick @granick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A short post about one of our Public Open Spaces, a small but sunny terrace you can enjoy in downtown San Francisco. granick.substack.com/p/one-kearny

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One Kearny

a small sunny spot downtown

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Jennifer Granick @granick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

also slavery. or maybe not "also".

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Jennifer Granick @granick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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...

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An Unexplored Cove

reviews of restaurants I never wanted to eat at

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Jennifer Granick @granick.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A hacking violation generally requires knowledge and/or intent, and creating and distributing models doesn't meet those elements of the offense.

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Jennifer Granick @granick.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Why doesn't everyone subscribe to 404? Another example of excellent reporting.

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Jennifer Granick @granick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Hi! I don't think so because generally you have to intentionally cause damage or intend to access the computer. And for civil cases "no action may be brought under this subsection for the negligent design or manufacture of computer hardware, computer software, or firmware."

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Seamus Hughes @seamushughes.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The trick to breaking news is to never sleep and file motions a year ago that finally bear fruit.

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Jennifer Granick @granick.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

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.

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Panos Place

The first in a series celebrating commemorative naming in San Francisco

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Jennifer Granick @granick.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I'll be there as a celebrity player. Watch out!

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Jennifer Granick @granick.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It's a relatively common sort of ignorance, to mistake process for substance, and to believe that good substance comes from any process with the "right" people. Experts know how false this is.

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Jennifer Granick @granick.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

By framing this as "just a computer", you are willfully ignoring the privacy-related differences between desktops and mobile phones. Chatrie applies to location information as we move through the world, whether generated by smartphones, tablets, or chips in our brains.

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Jennifer Granick @granick.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

A smartphone is "just a computer" like a calculator is just a computer like an AI chatbot is just a computer. The cultural ramifications of each are completely different. That is why everyone talks about the introduction of the iPhone in 2007 as revolutionary.

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Jennifer Granick @granick.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

You're a privacy advocate, Orin, but this isn't the outcome you advocated for.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 26/06/2026

Massive win for data privacy this morning

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Jennifer Granick @granick.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll check it out.

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Jennifer Granick @granick.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

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/...

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Salesforce park visit

The first in a series of reviews of San Francisco's Privately Owned Public Open Spaces

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Jennifer Granick @granick.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

ChatGPT says that moving to a large SUV may reduce an occupant's fatality risk by 10–30% while SUVs increase the risk of pedestrian death by 40–100%. I'm making it a lot more likely that your kid will die without making it that much more likely that mine will survive.

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Jennifer Granick @granick.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

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.

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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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Orin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

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...

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Jennifer Granick @granick.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

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...

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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...

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 22/05/2026

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...

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Message in a Bottleneck - Ctrl-Alt-Speech

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Jennifer Granick @granick.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

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.

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404 Media @404media.co · 16/05/2026

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...

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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.

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Jennifer Granick @granick.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

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.

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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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Jennifer Granick @granick.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

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.

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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.

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Jennifer Granick @granick.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Stewart Baker didn't just talk, he acted. As General Counsel of the National Security Agency, and in his DHS role, he instantiated his objectionable ideas in law, policy, and practice. Maybe he was fun on a panel, but behind his humorous quips lies a more problematic legacy.

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Jennifer Granick @granick.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

My Facebook feed is now entirely Chonkers. The algorithm Knows me.

Photo of gigantic stellar sea lion named Chonkers

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Jennifer Granick @granick.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I don't think that the virtual locker argument maps well onto content/non-content. If I have info in a locked area, it doesn't matter if it is content or not -- if you have to invade the area to get the info, it's a search. Similarly, the 3d party doctrine doesn't apply to some content e.g. email.

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Jennifer Granick @granick.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

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/...

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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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Jennifer Granick @granick.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

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.

A banner stating that The Shout substack has reached its first hundred subscribers.

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Allegra Harpootlian @allegraharpootlian.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

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...

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How ACLU Cases Are Limiting Overbroad Digital Search Warrants

New legal standards are restricting law enforcement’s access to cell phone and social media data

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Jennifer Granick @granick.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

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?

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Jennifer Granick @granick.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

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.

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The Shout | Jennifer Stisa Granick | Substack

Opinions on Everything. Click to read The Shout, by Jennifer Stisa Granick, a Substack publication. Launched 4 days ago.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 27/03/2026

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.

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."

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