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Jennifer Lynch

Jennifer Lynch is a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and works on EFF’s FOIA Litigation for Accountable Government (FLAG) Project.

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	Views Wednesday, May 30, 2018 Amazon, Stop Powering Government Surveillance EFF has joined the ACLU and a coalition of civil liberties organizations demanding that Amazon stop powering a government surveillance infrastructure. Last week, we signed onto a letter to Amazon condemning the company for developing a new face recognition product that enables real-time government... Read more
	Views Wednesday, December 21, 2016 Trump on Free Speech and Freedom of the Press No one can know for sure what the incoming Trump administration will do, but President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly criticized and threatened the media in the United States. In lieu of attempting the impossible and predicting the future, we’ve gathered all of Trump’s stated positions on free... Read more
	Views Thursday, June 16, 2016 New Report: FBI Can Access Hundreds of Millions of Face Recognition Photos Today the federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) finally published its exhaustive report on the FBI’s face recognition capabilities. The takeaway: FBI has access to hundreds of millions more photos than we ever thought. And the Bureau has been hiding this fact from the public—in flagrant... Read more
	Views Wednesday, January 15, 2014 Drone Surveillance of Border Far Greater Than Previously Known Read more
	Views Wednesday, October 19, 2011 The Dangers in Classifying the News “When everything is classified, then nothing is classified…The system becomes one to be disregarded by the cynical or the careless and to be manipulated by those intent on self-protection or self-promotion.” ~ Justice Stewart, New York Times v. United States, 1971. Read more
	Views Monday, July 11, 2011 The FBI's Next Generation Biometrics: Bigger and Faster but Much Worse for Privacy Last week, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and several other organizations released documents from a FOIA lawsuit that expose the concerted efforts of the FBI and DHS to build a massive database of personal and biometric information. Read more