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Ashley Baker
Mar 18, 2019
CFJ Letter to Senate Judiciary: When regulating data privacy, don't make America more like Europe
Trying to reinvent the wheel through data privacy regulations would make the United States less great and more like Europe. It is best to pr


Ashley N. Baker
Mar 11, 2019
Panel: Approaches to Regulating Technology—From Privacy to A.I.
There is new energy and momentum to legislate on technology issues—particularly when it comes to privacy, competition, and artificial...


SCOTUSblog
Mar 1, 2019
Friday Round-Up
In a Federalist Society video, Ashley Baker discusses 'the potential implications of Justice [Neil] Gorsuch’s reasoning in his … dissent


Ashley N. Baker
Mar 1, 2019
Federalist Society POLICYbrief Episode: Justice Gorsuch, Carpenter, & the Fourth Amendment
What are the potential implications of Justice Gorsuch’s reasoning in his Carpenter dissent? What does his dissent mean for privacy advocate


Julian Gehman
Feb 26, 2019
The Anatomy of Cellphone Eavesdropping
The following summarizes some of the operations that can be performed by cell-site simulators, although specific techniques vary according t


CFJ Staff
Jan 8, 2019
2018 Year in Review
The Committee for Justice was very busy in 2018. In the last year, we advocated for a clear framework for accessing data abroad, worked to d

Ashley Baker
Jan 8, 2019
Privacy Policy and the Economics of Data Collection Rules
Legislative initiatives in the mid-1990s to heavily regulate the Internet in the name of privacy would have impeded its growth while also fa


Op-ed published in The Hill
Dec 26, 2018
Are the Chinese and Russians Listening to Your Phone Calls?
While the press is abuzz with stories of Chinese technology theft and Russian hacking, there is a hole that has gotten too little attention.


Ashley N. Baker
Dec 21, 2018
CFJ Files Comments with the FTC on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century
CFJ's director of public policy responded to the Federal Trade Commission's request for comments on questions that will be discussed
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