Video: Cindy Cohn - Fighting for Digital Human Rights in “Privacy’s Defender” - Electronic Frontier Foundation

Attorney Cindy Cohn talks to Jon Stewart about her new book, “Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance,” and her work as executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is the world’s biggest and oldest digital rights organization. She recounts the fight against sweeping government surveillance after 9/11, her reservations about internet regulations backfiring if placed in the wrong hands, and why the solution to these problems is a combination of comprehensive privacy law, revised business models of giant tech companies who make money off of user data, and more platform choices for individuals. “A world where there are five big media companies that decide everything that we see and how we see it… the answer isn’t to try to take a dictator and make them a better dictator. The answer is to get rid of the dictators and make them less important.”

I don't agree with @eff calling himself the biggest and oldest privacy organization in #TheDailyShow, as @digitalcourage has been founded in 1987 already. Though originally as #FoeBuD, this is three years before #ElectronicFrontierFoundation 's birth. I guess Cindy Cohn was only talking about privacy organizations in the #UnitedStates. 🇺🇸

Besides from that, I totally agree with her on a lack of a comprehensive privacy law in the US, and that current regulations rather serve #BigTech than protecting people using their services. Last but not at least, I'd like to destroy business models of #SocialMedia companies, too. 😈 Fuck #GAMAM, go https://di.day

Mastodon got a plug on #thedailyshow (31 March) by Stewart's guest, attorney Cindy Cohn, ED of #eff

#electronicfrontierfoundation #surveillance

@eff Is there any chance that there will ever be a European merch webshop (in the foreseeable future)?

The freight rates from the US are killing my impulse shopping!

#ElectronicFrontierFoundation #EFF #merch #OnlineShopping

Hackaday Links: March 22, 2026

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/03/22/hackaday-links-march-22-2026/

The #Foilies2026

Established in 2015, The #Foilies are an annual project by the #ElectronicFrontierFoundation & #MuckRock to recognize the agencies, officials & contractors that thwart the public's #right to know. We give out these tongue-in-cheek "awards" during #SunshineWeek (March 15-21), a collective effort by media & advocacy organizations to highlight the importance of open government.

This year, we've got a few "winners" whose behavior defies belief.
#eff

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/foilies-2026

#SpotTheSurveillance

#EFF #ElectronicFrontierFoundation

https://www.eff.org/pages/spot-surveillance-vr-experience-keeping-eye-big-brother

Oh cool, now it’s harder to track what spy toys our tax dollars buy. The article says FPDS.gov—used to spot everything from phone hacking tech to location data and Palantir installs—was shut down Wednesday and replaced by SAM.gov, which reportedly makes searching way worse. Transparency got declawed 😼

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/02/26/1722205/the-government-just-made-it-harder-to-see-what-spy-tech-it-buys

#Surveillance #ICE #ElectronicFrontierFoundation