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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 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
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	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