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ICYMI, be sure you catch our interview with Cindy Cohn,

Executive Director and prolific civil liberties attorney in the fight for digital rights.

Cindy sat down with us in Ann Arbor, MI to discuss her work, the origins of the EFF, her latest book “Privacy’s Defender,” and the still-ongoing fight for privacy and digital liberties 💪

Watch now:

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In one hour, catch our interview with Cindy Cohn, EFF's outgoing Executive Director and prolific civil liberties attorney in the fight for digital rights.

Her first major case with the EFF, Bernstein v. United States, established the "right to code" and dismantled the USA's unconstitutional ban on encryption exports, paving the way for people to develop technologies like PGP and other strong encryption tools without having to register as an "arms dealer" and face government restrictions on publishing their ideas.

In her career since she's represented many historic cases: suing AT&T for secretly collaborating with the NSA (Hepting v. AT&T), Sony for installing malware DRM, a vote machine company abusing copyright law to silence criticism, the DVD Copy Control Association attacking freedom of speech, and many other fights against the NSA and for internet freedom.

Cohn has been with

for over 30 years, and succeeded Shari Steele to become EFF's Executive Director in 2015. Our interview discusses her works and legacy, the origins of the EFF, and the still-ongoing fight for privacy and digital liberties 💪

Premiering soon:

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If you're ready to fight for privacy rights, Privacy Guides is building the resources to support you 🔒✊

Whether you're a privacy activist, digital rights organization, or someone who wants to start, the Privacy Activist Toolbox is for you! 🧰

https://privacyguides.org/activism/toolbox/privacy-activist-toolbox/

It's a section filled with short tips to help with your advocacy journey, and your battles to defend privacy rights.

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Yesterday, we launched a new section to support the community in its privacy advocacy effort 💛

The first resource in this section is the Privacy Activist Toolbox ✊🧰

https://privacyguides.org/activism/toolbox/

This isn't an activist privacy checklist. It's a unique resource filled with useful tips to help privacy activists in their advocacy work, both for individuals and organizations! 💪

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NEW! 🚨✨

Privacy Guides is thrilled to announce today the addition of a new Activism section on our website!

This section will be a new way to support the community in its privacy advocacy and activism effort, both for individuals and organizations 💛

In this age of digital mass surveillance, we must work together to fight for privacy rights collectively ✊🔒

https://privacyguides.org/activism

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Increasingly, surveillance is being normalized and integrated in our lives. Under the guise of convenience, applications and features are sold to us as being the new better way to do things. While some might be useful, this convenience is a Trojan horse. The cost of it is the continuous degradation of our privacy rights, with all that that entails.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/06/07/selling-surveillance-as-convenience/

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There’s some exciting things coming your way from Privacy Guides! This week we’ve hired 3 people dedicated to creating informative and engaging privacy/security content, both in the written form and on video 🎥

Be sure to get subscribed to us on PeerTube/YouTube, and follow our socials/RSS to keep up with everything going on 😃

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/01/17/privacy-guides-hires-three-staff-members/

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