Privacy@Michigan - A Conversation with Cindy Cohn

In this Privacy@Michigan session, Cindy Cohn talked about her recently published professional memoir. In "Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance" (MIT Press), Cindy 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. Along the way she talked both about the history of the internet and EFF, and also how those fights are increasingly relevant today.