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"I like to win." - EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn (Interview)
Privacy Guides sat down with EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn to reflect on her over 30 years of service defending privacy and digital civil liberties at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the importance of community in activist spaces, and the big picture in our fight for privacy. Cindy Cohn's memoir, Privacy's Defender, is now available at a variety of retailers: https://www.eff.org/Privacys-Defender
In "Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance," Cindy (@EFForg) weaves her own personal story with her role as a leading legal voice representing the rights and interests of technology users, innovators, whistleblowers, and researchers during the Crypto Wars of the 1990s, battles over NSA’s dragnet internet spying revealed in the 2000s, and the fight against FBI gag orders.
Timestamps:
00:15 Intro
00:39 What Was the Most Impactful Case of Your Career?
01:09 What Case Are You Most Proud Of?
02:03 Should We Fight Private Companies Instead of Government?
03:46 Are the Current Issues What You Expected To Be Dealing With?
07:37 Why Privacy Matters At Every Level
09:30 The Founding Fathers & Privacy
10:08 The Space For Everyone in the Privacy Fight
11:11 Why "The Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" Falls Short
14:12 Are Our Privacy Rights Innate Or Do We Have To Go Take Them?
17:00 The Importance of Spaces Away From Privacy
20:05 How Can We Stay Motivated In the Fight For Privacy?
21:53 The Wisdom of Eva Galperin
23:57 The Importance of Community
25:45 How Can We Foster Healthy Communities ?
28:40 Everything We Need to Know About Jawboning
32:22 Why The App Store Duopoly Is a Nightmare
33:59 How Do We Know What The Government Is Currently Up To?
38:06 Open Comments
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