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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“Nobody is forcing these companies to supply more sensitive image-recognition technology to those who might use it in violation of human or civil rights.” (Photo: Amazon) 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...
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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...
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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...
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Drone Surveillance of Border Far Greater Than Previously Known
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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.
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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.
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