Cindy Cohn Is Leaving the EFF, but Not the Fight for Digital Rights
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Summary
Cindy Cohn has served as the executive director of digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) for the last decade, growing the organization’s influence in that time.
In that role, she has fought many of the key battles in the US over privacy and national security.
To Cohn, the fight to free encryption from government regulation set the tone for the future of the internet, though there remain ongoing battles against mass surveillance.
Her work at EFF has seen her defend coders’ right to do independent security research, and she is currently advocating for stronger state-level privacy laws.
Artificial intelligence is also high on Cohn’s list of concerns: she warns that the technology is being oversold by companies and that there is not yet an understanding of how AI systems fail.
For anyone looking to get into the field of digital rights activism, Cohn issues a call to arms: the fight needs fresh energy and new advocates.
