There are many reasons why we may not be able to help you directly or provide you with a recommendation. Sometimes our lawyers and cooperating lawyers are simply too busy to deal with another case. Sometimes the problem does not affect enough people. Sometimes your concern is too far removed from our area of interest. Sometimes the help you need is not legal aid at all. Since it was first reported by Utah CBS subsidiary KUTV, the story of Jen Palmer`s problems with KlearGear, an online retailer of geeky “office toys,” has been circulated on some of the most popular legal blogs about technology and the internet. It`s a terrifying story: Palmer`s husband placed one. Like intellectual property and telecommunications policy, the development of international principles of digital free expression is a great angel to fight with. We must ensure that this immense task does not distract the EFF from its specific legal agenda. But we also cannot ignore the fact that cyberspace is hardly American territory. If you need legal assistance, do not hesitate to contact us. We are always primarily interested in cases involving constitutional issues. We are investigating incidents where the rights of users of First Amendment computers may have been restricted, where searches and seizures appear to have exceeded the powers of the Fourth Amendment, where the government appears to have violated the Electronic Communications Privacy Protection Act, and where warrants have been issued without sufficient reason.
There is no shortage of legal possibilities. The problem is to choose the best ones. Karen Gullo is an award-winning former journalist who works as an analyst and senior media relations specialist at the EFF, working with the organization`s lawyers, activists and technologists on strategic communications and messaging to strengthen her incredible work advocating for civil liberties in the digital world. Writer, editor and former journalist with more than two decades of experience with Bloomberg News and Associated Press in San Francisco, Washington D.C. and New York, Karen helps develop eff responses to media requests, writing press releases and publications, as well as editorials on defending privacy and freedom of expression online, encryption, Fourth Amendment rights, copyright abuse and much more. As an analyst, Karen writes blog posts and contributes to white papers on topics ranging from student privacy and mass surveillance to private censorship, the First Amendment, and international treaties on surveillance and privacy. She has worked on eff activism projects that hold social media platforms accountable for poor content moderation practices, expose Amazon Ring`s warm relationships with local law enforcement, and push for the inclusion of human rights guarantees in the Council of Europe`s revised Budapest Convention. She is also a contributor to the SeismicSisters.com Feminism website. Prior to joining the EFF, Karen was a reporter at Bloomberg News from 2002 to 2015, where she published articles on Google`s legal challenge to the FBI`s national security letters. Prior to Bloomberg, Karen was a reporter for the Associated Press in New York and Washington and, as a member of an investigative reporting team, covered politics — including the 2000 presidential election — the Department of Justice, campaign finance, federal procurement practices, and more. Karen has received national and local journalism awards, including the Jesse H.
Neal Award for Business Journalism and the San Francisco Peninsula Press Club Awards for Excellence in Journalism. She grew up in Oak Park, Illinois, and lives in San Francisco. The Wall Street Journal published a particularly hysterical article claiming that the document published by Craig Neidorf (in the case of which we had entered an amicus letter of support) was a computer virus capable of shutting down the emergency phone system for the entire country. In fact, the text file distributed by Neidorf dealt with the bureaucratic procedures of the 911 administration in the BellSouth area and contained nothing that could be used to decipher a system. It contained nothing that could not be easily achieved by legal means. During this interview, I realized that in the microcosm, I saw the entire law enforcement structure of the United States.