Meet the Author: Cindy Cohn - Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance

About this event

Ground Floor, Bradley C. Walters Meeting Room. Throughout 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: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance chronicles her 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. 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 other human rights. Cohn will discuss her career, and the future of digital surveillance and rights in the time of AI and creeping authoritarianism. Following the conversation will be an audience Q&A and book signing. Please register to receive updates and reminders. Registration assists with planning; however, it does not guarantee a seat. Additionally, masks are encouraged and will be provided. Get accessibility information.

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