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Amie Stepanovich

U.S. Policy Manager

Amie Stepanovich is U.S. Policy Manager and Global Policy Counsel at Access Now, where she works to protect human rights in laws and policies involving technologies and their use. Amie manages and develops the organization's U.S. policy and leads global projects at the intersection of human rights and government surveillance. Previously, Amie was the Director of the Domestic Surveillance Project at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, where she testified in hearings in both the Senate and the House of Representatives, as well as in front of the German and Australian Parliaments. Amie is a board member of the Internet Education Foundation and an advisory board member for the Future of Privacy Forum. From 2014-2015, she was a liaison to the American Bar Association's Cybersecurity Task Force and she co-chaired the 2014 Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference. In 2015, Amie was an American delegate to the American Swiss Foundation’s Young Leaders Conference. She was a member of the Australian-American Leadership Dialogue’s Young Leaders Dialogue (YLD) from 2017-2018 and for 2019-2020 was named an American Program Manager. In addition, Amie was named as a Privacy Ambassador by the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada and was recognized in 2014 as one of Forbes magazine’s 30 under 30 leaders in Law and Policy. She has a J.D. from New York Law School, and a B.S. from the Florida State University.

FBI Covertly Requests Backdoor Access to Electronic Data Through Procedural Rule Change

9 Nov 2014
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FBI Covertly Requests Backdoor Access to Electronic Data Through Procedural Rule Change
9 Nov 2014
FBI Covertly Requests Backdoor Access to Electronic Data Through Procedural Rule Change

The FBI’s Quiet Plan to Expand Its Hacking Powers

5 Nov 2014
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The FBI’s Quiet Plan to Expand Its Hacking Powers
5 Nov 2014
The FBI’s Quiet Plan to Expand Its Hacking Powers

Privacy advocates seek DC’s help to restrain FBI

5 Nov 2014
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Privacy advocates seek DC’s help to restrain FBI
5 Nov 2014
Privacy advocates seek DC’s help to restrain FBI

Birgitta Jonsdottir, Amie Stepanovich And Adam Ghetti Believe Privacy Isn’t Dead But Needs Millennia

21 Oct 2014
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Birgitta Jonsdottir, Amie Stepanovich And Adam Ghetti Believe Privacy Isn’t Dead But Needs Millennia
21 Oct 2014
Birgitta Jonsdottir, Amie Stepanovich And Adam Ghetti Believe Privacy Isn’t Dead But Needs Millennia

Fool’s gold: data security is vital to users

16 Oct 2014

Salvador Dali once commented, “what is important is to spread confusion.” Perhaps this accounts for the recent messaging behind data security. While a battle wages between Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. (and beyond) over digital security, users’ most personal information is being put at risk.

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Fool’s gold: data security is vital to users
16 Oct 2014
Fool’s gold: data security is vital to users

Snapchat under fire following photo leak

13 Oct 2014
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Snapchat under fire following photo leak
13 Oct 2014
Snapchat under fire following photo leak
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It’s exceptionalism. And I’m sick of it.

8 Oct 2014

The global population has become collateral damage in the race to collect surveillance data

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It’s exceptionalism. And I’m sick of it.
8 Oct 2014
It’s exceptionalism. And I’m sick of it.

Failure to pass US surveillance reform bill could still curtail NSA powers

3 Oct 2014
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Failure to pass US surveillance reform bill could still curtail NSA powers
3 Oct 2014
Failure to pass US surveillance reform bill could still curtail NSA powers

Ello, is anyone out there?

1 Oct 2014

New social media site promises more privacy, but can it follow through?

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Ello, is anyone out there?
1 Oct 2014
Ello, is anyone out there?

Virtual Integrity: Three steps toward building stronger cryptographic standards

18 Sep 2014

As the International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance make clear, the preservation of the integrity of communications and systems is a key obligation under international law. Just as it would be unreasonable for governments to insist that all residents of houses should leave their doors unlocked just in case the police need to search a particular property, or to require all persons to install surveillance cameras in their houses on the basis that it might be useful to future prosecutions, it is equally disproportionate for governments to interfere with the integrity of everyone’s communications in order to facilitate its investigations or to require the identification of users as a precondition for service provision or the retention of all customer data.

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Virtual Integrity: Three steps toward building stronger cryptographic standards
18 Sep 2014
Virtual Integrity: Three steps toward building stronger cryptographic standards