Noted computer crime attorney comes to EFF

Electronic Frontier Foundation Media Release

For Immediate Release: Monday, September 10, 2007

Contact:

Jennifer Stisa Granick
   Civil Liberties Director
   Electronic Frontier Foundation
   jennifer@eff.org
   +1 415 436-9333 x134

Noted Computer Crime Attorney Comes to EFF

Jennifer Stisa Granick Named Civil Liberties Director

San Francisco - Noted computer crime attorney Jennifer
Stisa Granick has joined the Electronic Frontier Foundation
(EFF) as its new Civil Liberties Director, working on
government surveillance, Fourth Amendment, computer
security, and computer crime law.

Granick previously was Executive Director at Stanford Law
School's Center for Internet and Society as well as
Director of the Cyberlaw Clinic.  Before Stanford, Granick
spent almost a decade practicing criminal defense law,
focusing on hacker defense and the interaction of free
speech, privacy, law, and technology.

"EFF plays a critical role in the battle to protect freedom
and privacy as new technologies transform our lives, and
I'm thrilled to be a part of this important work," Granick
said.  "I'm especially looking forward to protecting
privacy rights in digital communications technologies,
creating standards for how new technologies are used in
national security and law enforcement investigations and
promoting network privacy by working with security
researchers."

Granick was selected by Information Security magazine in
2003 as one of 20 "Women of Vision" in the computer
security field.  She has spoken to the American Bar
Association, National Security Agency, Naval Postgraduate
School, International Security Forum, Computer Security
Institute, Black Hat security conference, and the
international Workshop on the Economics of Information
Security, among others.

"EFF has long wanted to expand into criminal defense work,
and Jennifer is the best there is," said EFF Legal Director
Cindy Cohn.  "It's time to take a deeper look at how
technologies are being used in criminal and national
security prosecutions.  We're all very excited about adding
this new depth to our work."

Granick received her J.D. degree from the University of
California Hastings College of the Law and her
undergraduate degree from the New College of the University
of South Florida.

For this release:
http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2007_09.php#005430

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