"Throughout her career, Cindy Cohn has been driven by a fundamental question: Can we still have private conversations if we live our lives online? Privacy's Defender chronicles her thirty-year battle to protect our right to digital privacy and shows just how central this right is to all our other rights, including our ability to organize and make change in the world."
"Shattering the hypermasculine myth that our digital reality was solely the work of a handful of charismatic tech founders, the author weaves her own personal story with the history of Crypto Wars, FBI gag orders, and the post-9/11 surveillance state. She describes how she became a seasoned leader in the early digital rights movement, as well as how this work serendipitously helped her discover her birth parents and find her life partner."
Cindy Cohn, Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is launching her book 'Privacy's Defender' on March 12, 2026. The book chronicles her thirty-year career fighting for digital privacy rights and examines whether private conversations can exist in an increasingly online world. Cohn's work has involved battling federal agencies, protecting data security, and arguing before judges for internet access and knowledge protection. The book combines memoir with legal history, covering the Crypto Wars, FBI gag orders, and post-9/11 surveillance. It challenges the narrative that tech founders alone shaped digital reality and details how Cohn built the EFF into a powerful digital rights organization. The launch event features a live conversation with journalist Annalee Newitz and a book signing.
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