Fighting for Internet Privacy in an Increasingly Surveilled World
We talk to digital rights attorney Cindy Cohn about the ever-shifting world of digital surveillance and why, despite its ubiquity, we don’t need to feel powerless.
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Show Notes
“Privacy is a check on power,” writes Cindy Cohn, executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in her book, “Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance.” Since the San Francisco based non-profit began in 1990 to advocate for open access to a then fledgling internet, EFF has been at the center of battles over individual rights and privacy from corporations and government in an increasingly surveilled world. We talk to Cohn about the ever-shifting world of digital surveillance and why, despite its ubiquity, we don’t need to feel powerless.
Guests:
Cindy Cohn, executive director, Electronic Frontier Foundation; author, "Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance"
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