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Cindy Cohn of Electronic Frontier Foundation photogrphed by SRK Headshot Day in San Francisco, CA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

11 a.m., April 5, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Join us this Sunday, either in person or online, as we discuss the video Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance, by Cindy Cohn, a March 30 interview of Cindy Cohn by John Stewart of The Daily Show.<\/p>\n

Cindy Cohn is an American civil liberties attorney specializing in Internet law. She has served as executive director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation since 2015. She is a leading legal voice representing the rights and interests of technology users, innovators, whistleblowers, and researchers during the Crypto Wars of the 1990s, in battles over NSA\u2019s dragnet internet spying revealed in the 2000s, and in the fight against FBI gag orders.<\/p>\n

he Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an American international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 1990 to promote Internet civil liberties.<\/p>\n

You can watch this video at: https:\/\/youtu.be\/QkC1aK7jfLo<\/a><\/p>\n

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