Jennifer Granick

Jennifer Granick
Jennifer Granick in 2008

Jennifer Stisa Granick (born 1969) is the General Counsel of Worldstar, LLC. Prior to joining WorldStarHipHop, Granick was an attorney at ZwillGen PLLC from 2010-2012 and the Civil Liberties Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation from 2007-2010. Previously, Granick served as the Executive Director of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School where she was a lecturer in 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 is best known for her work with Intellectual Property law, free speech, privacy, and other things relating to computer security, and has represented several high profile hackers.

Education and personal life

Granick was born in 1969 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, with both of her parents being local educators. She attended Glen Ridge High School, and then New College in Sarasota, Florida, from which she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1990. After that, she moved to San Francisco to attend Hastings Law School, from which she graduated in 1993. Previously, she was married to Brad Stone, a technology journalist.

Career

She initially worked in criminal defense, first at the state public defender's office, then as a trial attorney at Campbell & DeMetrick. From 1996-2001 she worked in private practice, specializing in defending cases involving computer crime, and then started working at Stanford in 2001, giving classes on cyber law. 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 Def Con and ShmooCon, and has also spoken at the National Security Agency as well as to other law enforcement officials.

She was also responsible for the creation of a new (in 2006) exception to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act which allows mobile telephone owners to legally circumvent the firmware locking their device to a single carrier.

Writing

• Chapter One: Legal and Ethical Issues, ("Security Power Tools", 2006)

• "Faking It: Calculating Loss in Computer Crime Cases", published in I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society, Cybersecurity, Volume 2, Issue 2 (2006)
• The Price of Restricting Vulnerability Publications, SSRN

• "Circuit Court", a bi-weekly column for Wired News

• "PAS or Fail: The Use and Abuse of the Preliminary Alcohol Screening Test", The Champion, April 1996 (The Champion is the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Magazine. )
• Scotty, Beam Down the Lawyers: When Free Speech Collides With Trademark Law, Wired, October 1997

Selected cases and clients

• Represented Christopher Soghoian, creator of a fake boarding pass generator, in 2006
• Represented Michael Lynn in 2005 as part of the Cisco/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 Premier Election Solutions), a copyright misuse case related to electronic voting
• Represented calculator hobbyists against threats from Texas Instruments
• Wrote amicus briefs regarding application of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in American Airlines v. Farechase, United States v. Lowson, United States v. Lori Drew
• Represented HBGary

See also

• FedEx furniture

References

• Center for Internet and Society - Jennifer Granick bio and professional blog
• Granick's personal blog, "The Shout"
• GrepLaw Cyberlawyer profile from Harvard University
• Stanford profile

External links

• Stories by Jennifer Granick at Wired News