Bonus Episode: Privacy’s Defender

While How to Fix the Internet is on hiatus, we wanted to share a great conversation with you from earlier this week. EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn spoke with bestselling novelist, journalist, and EFF Special Advisor Cory Doctorow about Cindy’s new book, “Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance” ( MIT Press ). Part memoir, part battle cry, “Privacy’s Defender” is the story of Cindy’s fights alongside the visionaries who looked at the early internet and understood that the legal and political battles over this new technology - the Crypto Wars, the NSA’s dragnet, the FBI gag orders - were really over the future of free speech, privacy, and power for all. This conversation was recorded on Tuesday, March 10 in front of a packed house at San Francisco’s iconic City Lights Bookstore . You can also watch the video on YouTube . For more about the book and Cindy’s national book tour - with stops in places including Seattle, Silicon Valley, Denver, Boston, Ann Arbor, Iowa City, Washington DC and New York City - check out And finally, stay tuned to this feed; we’re working on a special podcast series featuring key players and moments from the book!

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Bonus Episode: Privacy’s Defender is an episode from EFF's How to Fix the Internet by Electronic Frontier Foundation.

This episode is 01:07:01 long.

This episode was published on Mar 17, 2026.

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