About this episode

Cindy Cohn discusses the evolution of government surveillance and privacy battles from the rise of the internet to the present.

The revelations of widespread surveillance by the National Security Agency after 9/11 brought to light one aspect of how the government has capitalized on digital technology to amass power – and such dangers have only multiplied. Cindy Cohn, executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, has been involved in numerous groundbreaking legal battles with the U.S. government over surveillance and privacy, including establishing encryption as protected speech. She discusses the battles over government spying from the rise of the internet to the present. Cindy Cohn, Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance MIT Press, 2026 Electronic Frontier Foundation: Surveillance Self-Defense Section 702 Spying Photo by Chris Yang on Unsplash The post Fighting Surveillance appeared first on KPFA.

People in this episode

Guest: Cindy Cohn

Topics covered

• surveillance
• privacy
• government
• digital technology
• legal battles
• encryption

Keywords

• surveillance
• privacy
• Cindy Cohn
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• encryption
• government spying
• digital technology

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Organizations: Electronic Frontier Foundation, MIT Press, National Security Agency

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