#216: The Nunes Memo and FISA Explained

Tech Policy Podcast

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🗓️ 7 February 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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The controversial memo prepared by Rep. Nunes (R-CA) hasn’t left the newscycle since its release on February 2. Berin recorded this special episode from the Bay Area and is joined by Jennifer Granick, the “NBA All-Star of surveillance law,” and the Surveillance and Cybersecurity Counsel at the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. Jennifer breaks down FISA, the authority that allowed collection of the information used in the memo, and the intricacies of the infamous memo.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Tech Policy Podcast. I'm your sometime host, Baron Soka. I'm here in
0:06.1	lovely San Francisco with the All-Star, NBA All-Star of Surveillance. According to Senator Ron
0:13.4	Wyden, that would be done other than Jennifer Granik. Jennifer, welcome to the Tech Policy
0:17.9	Podcast. Thank you. Jennifer, you've had a long career in this field.
0:21.6	You were at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society from 2001 to 2012.
0:28.6	Basically, 2001 to 2007, then I took a break.
0:32.6	I came back in 2012 and I was there until the middle of 2017.
0:36.6	And in between you were at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
0:39.3	Right.
0:40.3	And you also somehow managed to find time to write a book called American Spies Modern Surveillance,
0:45.3	Why You Should Care and What to Do About It?
0:48.3	Winner of the 2016 Palmer Civil Liberties Prize.
0:53.3	What's the thesis of the book? The idea of the book is to show how
0:58.1	lots of changes, particularly in law and technology, have made massive surveillance, the rule of the day.
1:05.4	And to talk about how that happened and what we could do to roll that back and try to get back
1:10.4	into a situation
1:11.2	where surveillance is targeted for good purposes and not massive for indiscriminate purposes.
1:16.7	And good work.
1:18.4	Thank you for doing that.
1:19.2	Thank you.
1:19.7	And this year you just joined the ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project as the
1:25.6	Surveillance and Cyber Security Council.
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