Privacy's Defender - My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance

A personal chronicle of three key legal privacy battles that have defined the digital age and shaped the internet as we know it. From the very beginning, Cindy Cohn was driven by a fundamental question: can we still have private conversations if we live our lives online? Shattering 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. Part 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 human rights.

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Cindy Cohn

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Cindy Cohn
• Edition: The MIT Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 10.03.2026
• EAN: 9780262051248
• ISBN: 978-0-262-05124-8
• Pages: 248
• Catégories: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Théories sociologiques; Social issues & processes, Ethical issues & debates, Privacy & data protection, Privacy and data protection, COMPUTERS / Internet / Online Safety & Privacy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Privacy & Surveillance, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Privacy & Surveillance, Control, privacy and safety in society, Ethical issues, topics and debates