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Andrew Crocker

Andrew Crocker is a staff attorney on the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s civil liberties team. He focuses on EFF’s national security and privacy docket, as well as the Coders' Rights Project.

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	Views Wednesday, October 05, 2016 Yahoo Email Surveillance: the Next Front in the Fight Against Mass Surveillance In a bombshell published Tuesday, Reuters reports that, in 2015, Yahoo complied with an order it received from the U.S. government to search all of its users’ incoming emails, in real time. There’s still much that we don’t know at this point, but if the report is accurate, it represents a new—and... Read more
	Views Saturday, August 13, 2016 We Shouldn’t Wait Another Fifteen Years for a Conversation About Government Hacking With high-profile hacks in the headlines and government officials trying to reopen a long-settled debate about encryption, information security has become a mainstream issue. But we feel that one element of digital security hasn’t received enough critical attention: the role of government in... Read more
	Views Thursday, April 21, 2016 A Disappointing Ruling on National Security Letters, But Not the Last Word The federal district court in San Francisco in EFF’s National Security Letter (NSL) cases has unsealed its order from last month, which denies our clients’ long-running First Amendment challenges to the NSL statute. This is the first public decision interpreting the NSL statute since it was amended... Read more
	Views Monday, June 01, 2015 Don’t Worry, the Government Still Has Plenty of Surveillance Power If Section 215 Sunsets The story being spun by the defenders of Section 215 of the Patriot Act and the Obama Administration is that if the law sunsets entirely, the government will lose critical surveillance capabilities. The fearmongering includes President Obama , who said: “heaven forbid we’ve got a problem where we... Read more