Jennifer Valentino-DeVries

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Lawmakers Target Google’s Tracking

Jennifer Valentino-Devries, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Media on February 18 at 2:02 pm PT

Washington wants to know more about the Safari story.

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Google’s iPhone Tracking

Julia Angwin and Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on February 17 at 4:11 am PT

Google Inc. and other advertising companies have been bypassing the privacy settings of millions of people using Apple Inc.’s Web browser on their iPhones and computers — tracking the Web-browsing habits of people who intended for that kind of monitoring to be blocked.

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“Nerd Lobby” Shows Muscle in Debate Over Piracy Bills

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 18 at 3:51 pm PT

Late last fall, a select group met in the White House Situation Room to discuss U.S. Internet security and how it might falter if two anti-piracy bills being debated in Congress were to pass.

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Author of Controversial Piracy Bill Now Says “More Study” Needed

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 12 at 4:14 pm PT

The senator who introduced hotly debated legislation intended to shut down pirate websites said Thursday he is backing away from one of the most controversial parts of the bill, amid criticism from Web companies, human rights groups and Internet engineers.

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The Surveillance Catalog

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Jeremy Singer-Vine, Zachary M. Seward, Julia Angwin, Courtney Banks, Scott Thurm and Ashkan Soltani, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 19, 2011 at 4:00 am PT

Documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal open a rare window into a new global market for the off-the-shelf surveillance technology that has arisen in the decade since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

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Feds Can Get Twitter Users’ Data Without Warrant, Judge Says

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Voices on November 11, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

Should the government be able to collect information related to your Internet use without a warrant? According to a U.S. District Court opinion in the case of three WikiLeaks associates, it should.

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Software Finds Place in Posse

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Voices on November 4, 2011 at 5:30 am PT

Law-enforcement and intelligence agencies are increasingly relying on information from the Web and electronic records to help solve crimes and evaluate threats, producing a stream of new business for companies that can help them crunch the data.

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Feds Shift Tracking Defense

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 3, 2011 at 4:30 am PT

The U.S. Department of Justice now says its use of a cellphone-tracking device in a controversial Arizona case could be considered a “search” under the Fourth Amendment, a tactical move legal experts say is designed to protect the secrecy of the gadgets known as “stingrays.”

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U.S. Firm Acknowledges Syria Uses Its Gear to Block Web

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Paul Sonne and Nour Malas, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 28, 2011 at 4:17 pm PT

A U.S. company that makes Internet-blocking gear acknowledges that Syria has been using at least 13 of its devices to censor Web activity there — an admission that comes as the Syrian government cracks down on its citizens and silences their online activities.

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“Stingray” Phone Tracker Fuels Constitutional Clash

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 22, 2011 at 12:00 am PT

For more than a year, federal authorities pursued a man they called simply “the Hacker.” Only after using a little known cellphone-tracking device — a stingray — were they able to zero in on a California home and make the arrest.