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DESCRIPTION:A personal chronicle of three key legal privacy battles that have defined 
 the digital age and shaped the internet as we know it.\n\nFrom a seasoned 
 leader in the field of digital privacy rights.\n\nThroughout 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.\n\nShattering 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. Along the 
 way, she also details the development of the Electronic Frontier 
 Foundation, which she grew from a ragtag group of lawyers and hackers into 
 one of the most powerful digital rights organizations in the world.\n\nPart 
 memoir and part legal history for the general reader, the book is a 
 compelling testament to just how hard-won the privacy rights we now enjoy 
 as tech users are, but also how crucial these rights are in our efforts to 
 combat authoritarianism, grow democracy, and strengthen other human 
 rights.\n\nCindy Cohn is Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier 
 Foundation. From 2000 to 2015, she served as EFF’s Legal Director as well 
 as its General Counsel. Today, she spearheads a team of more than 120 
 lawyers, activists, and technologists who are dedicated to ensuring that 
 technology supports speech, privacy, and innovation for all the people of 
 the world.\n\nThis event made possible by support from the City Lights 
 Foundation.\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/02/07/18883916.php
SUMMARY:Cindy Cohn / Launch Party for “Privacy’s Defender”
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\n261 Columbus Avenue\nSan Francisco, CA 94133
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/02/07/18883916.php
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