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Jennifer Stisa Granick (born 1969) is an attorney at ZwillGen PLLC.[1] Prior to joining ZwillGen in 2010, she held the position of Civil Liberties Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation from 2007-2010. Prior to that, she served as the Executive Director of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School where she was a lecturer in law. She also founded and directed the Law School's Cyberlaw Clinic where she supervised students in working on some of the most important cyberlaw cases that took place during her tenure. She is best known for her work with Intellectual Property law, free speech, privacy, and other things relating to computer security, and has represented several high profile hackers.
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Granick was born in 1969 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, with both of her parents being local educators. She attended Glen Ridge High School, and then New College in Sarasota, Florida, from which she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1990. After that, she moved to San Francisco to attend Hastings Law School, from which she graduated in 1993. Previously, she was married to Brad Stone, a technology journalist.
She initially worked in criminal defense, first at the state public defender's office, then as a trial attorney at Campbell & DeMetrick. From 1996-2001 she worked in private practice, specializing in defending cases involving computer crime, and then started working at Stanford in 2001, giving classes on cyber law. She was selected by Information Security magazine in 2003 as one of 20 "Women of Vision" in the computer security field.
Granick has been a speaker at conferences such as Def Con and ShmooCon, and has also spoken at the National Security Agency as well as to other law enforcement officials.
She was also responsible for the creation of a new (in 2006) exception to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act which allows mobile telephone owners to legally circumvent the firmware locking their device to a single carrier.[2]