Cindy Cohn — Privacy's Defender
EFF executive director chronicles her thirty-year battle to protect digital privacy and why this right underpins all other freedoms.
Why we picked this
The woman who has spent three decades fighting for your digital rights tells the story of how she did it — and why it matters more than ever.
Cindy Cohn has led the Electronic Frontier Foundation through every major digital privacy battle of the last thirty years — from fighting warrantless surveillance to challenging tech monopolies to defending encryption. Her professional memoir traces how a single legal and advocacy organization became the last line of defense for rights that most people don’t realize they’re losing.
The argument at the core of the book is simple and urgent: privacy isn’t just about keeping secrets. It’s the foundation that makes organizing, dissent, and every other freedom possible. Without it, the architecture of democracy weakens in ways that are hard to see until it’s too late.
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