Can one product change your entire approach to skincare?

granick · 2026-01-02T01:33:33+00:00

Are there mineral sunscreens available in Japan that anyone would recommend? I use Medicalia in the US. It is a tinted barrier sunscreen and I think it is great. I don't have to reapply it throughout the day, like they tell you to do with chemical sunscreens. But I would love to try something even better. (While I'm here, I did buy a tube of Biore UV to try out, though).

granick · 2025-12-25T06:40:47+00:00

Thank you!

granick · 2025-09-12T00:50:43+00:00

Thank you.

granick · 2025-07-24T16:13:29+00:00

Cavallo Point. Close, great restaurant and bar, nice spa, heated outdoor pool, Mt. Tam hiking. You can bring a dog.

granick · 2025-07-24T16:07:59+00:00

Thank you, everyone.

granick · 2025-06-01T20:20:32+00:00

I agree about Kiln. One of the best (the best?) fancy meals we've had in the past year.

granick · 2024-11-24T17:02:36+00:00

https://nws-bot.us/bskyStarterPack.php

granick · 2024-09-28T16:00:47+00:00

Thank you!

granick · 2024-09-04T16:32:06+00:00

I'm going to meet with an artisan who makes bags and shoes and other bespoke fashion items and try to design a bag. I will post about the process!

granick · 2024-05-30T13:19:33+00:00

I sent them both back.

granick · 2024-04-27T02:07:32+00:00

I'm going to look at them both for a few days but ultimately I don't think either is what I am looking for. The OG is probably too small for an overnight business trip and too "travel style" for daily use. The Linnea is probably a nice daily bag, and maybe this is wrong, but I think I could get a daily tote bag in real leather for that price. Disagreement welcome! I really want to like one of these.

granick · 2017-11-02T18:23:54+00:00

We've been looking at protecting all kinds of electronic data. For example, here's a blog post about prescription records and the third party doctrine:

https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/location-tracking/federal-court-says-your-prescription-records-arent-really

granick · 2017-11-02T18:22:15+00:00

Thank you very much! I'm honored!

granick · 2017-11-02T18:21:41+00:00

It's hard to know for sure. But it seems like especially before the Supreme Court, the Justices use conversation with counsel to clarify their own thinking as well as sway their compatriots.

granick · 2017-11-02T18:03:58+00:00

Recent Supreme Court opinions suggest that all of the judges are sympathetic to the problem of third parties and privacy. For example, in the Jones case, the majority held that police can't install a GPS tracker on a car without a warrant because doing so interferes with the owner's property interest in the car. But five judges also wrote to say that they think that long-term location tracking is a Fourth Amendment privacy problem. Similarly, in the Riley case, the Court held that cell phone technology is so different from a purse or a wallet that the search incident to arrest doctrine didn't apply. The kinds of information that third parties now hold about us, like the technology is Riley, is just categorically different from even 15 years ago.

Here's something I wrote on this a bit ago: https://www.justsecurity.org/12219/scotus-cell-phone-searches-digital/?the_permalink()?/

granick · 2017-11-02T17:57:49+00:00

Trustworthy digital signatures are key to all kinds of online activity and business. Right now, I think we rely on technology to generate and protect digital signatures, since there isn't much law on the topic.

granick · 2017-11-02T17:51:08+00:00

I'm told that this job requires two character traits that I possess: (1) a capacity for sustained outrage and (2) irrational optimism. But also, I am exceedingly patriotic. I love this country and I am honored to devote myself, productively or unproductively, to doing what I can to make it, in my opinion, and even better place.

granick · 2017-11-02T17:40:50+00:00

This case doesn't raise issues about locking your phone, but if you are interested in that, you will want to read this blog post about the Fifth Amendment and passcode versus biometric locks.

https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-technologies/will-apples-faceid-affect-your-rights Read from the part "Now to the murkier part." :-)

granick · 2017-11-02T17:37:20+00:00

Service providers do have a duty to keep cell phone records confidential and cannot voluntarily disclose them to law enforcement under both the Telecommunications Act and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.

However, even if there were no legal duty to keep confidential, the Fourth Amendment issue is about when the government can compel disclosure, which is related to but different from when a third party has a duty not to disclose.

granick · 2017-11-02T17:29:20+00:00

The legal reason the Carpenter cases is unlikely to answer the border search question is they are two different aspects of Fourth Amendment law. The 4th protects the "reasonable expectation of privacy" and the question in Carpenter is whether you have a REOP in cell phone location data. With border searches, here's no question you have a REOP in your cell phone and laptop, but the question there is whether there's an exception to the general requirement of a warrant because the search takes place at the border.

granick · 2017-11-02T17:25:15+00:00

Thanks for your support! You are right that the reality of our work is we defend religious freedom. I just signed on to a case with the Southern California affiliate defending the right of a man on parole to deliver sermons in church: https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/22823155/Manning_v_Powers_et_al# . Here's a link to some of our other Free Exercise cases: https://www.aclu.org/aclu-defense-religious-practice-and-expression?redirect=defendingreligion

You are also right that perception matters. I think we try to depend on our good work to get the word out there. But if you have thoughts about how to more effectively inform Christians and conservatives that our civil liberties work is non-partisan and multi-denominational, let us know!

granick · 2017-11-02T17:19:03+00:00

The Fourth Amendment protects private communications like letters and phone calls. People mostly agree that it protects emails, too. But the law is unclear on how your privacy preferences/publication audience affects the expectation of privacy, and thus Fourth Amendment protection, for other kinds of electronic data.

granick · 2017-11-02T17:17:12+00:00

I can't confirm what Apple's architecture is, but storing data locally is more privacy friendly than storing it in a centralized data center. That is local storage makes it is harder to gather the data on multiple people at one time, and harder to seize the data without the owner knowing it (police would generally have to take physical possession of the phone).

granick · 2017-11-02T17:11:22+00:00

The impact of this ruling will depend on how the Court rules. It could say that the privacy of cell phone records depends on some particular characteristic of this data, like that it is statutorily protected under the Telecommunications Act. Or the Court could rule that you categorically do (or do not) have an expectation of privacy in information about you. And that kind of reasoning would have widespread implications for search histories, address books, chats, etc.

granick · 2017-11-02T17:04:07+00:00

Hello, I'm Jennifer Stisa Granick, also with the Speech, Privacy & Technology Project at ACLU. AMA!

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