Bonus Podcast Episode: Privacyβs Defender - Cindy Cohn with Cory Doctorow
While How to Fix the Internet is on hiatus, we wanted to share a great conversation with you from last week. EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn spoke with bestselling novelist, journalist, and EFF Special Advisor Cory Doctorow about Cindyβs new book, βPrivacyβs Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillanceβ (MIT Press).
You can also listen to this episode on the Internet Archive or watch the video on YouTube.
Part memoir, part battle cry, βPrivacyβs Defenderβ is the story of Cindyβs fights alongside the visionaries who looked at the early internet and understood that the legal and political battles over this new technology - the Crypto Wars, the NSAβs dragnet, the FBI gag orders - were really over the future of free speech, privacy, and power for all.Β
This conversation was recorded on Tuesday, March 10 in front of a packed house at San Franciscoβs iconic City Lights Bookstore.Β For more about the book and Cindyβs national book tour - with stops in places including Seattle, Silicon Valley, Denver, Boston, Ann Arbor, Iowa City, Washington DC and New York City - check out https://www.eff.org/Privacys-DefenderΒ Β
And finally, stay tuned to this feed; weβre working on a special podcast series featuring key players and moments from the book!Β
Resources:Β
- The Crypto Wars: Bernstein v. US Department of Justice
- NSA Spying: Hepting v. AT&T
- NSA Spying: Jewel v. NSA
- EFFβs National Security Letter lawsuitsΒ
