Cindy Cohn is the Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (@eff) and was the Outside Lead Attorney in Bernstein v. Dept. of Justice, the successful First Amendment challenge to the US export restrictions on cryptography.

The National Law Journal named Cohn one of 100 most influential lawyers in America in 2013, noting: “If Big Brother is watching, he better look out for Cindy Cohn.” She was also named in 2006 for “rushing to the barricades wherever freedom and civil liberties are at stake online.” In 2007 the National Law Journal named her one of the 50 most influential women lawyers in America. In 2018 Forbes included her as one of America’s Top 50 Women in Tech.

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In today’s episode we discuss:

How censorship leads to authoritarianism

Why freedom of speech is such a tricky tight rope

What Apple’s doing to help China crackdown on Hong Kong protesters

How algorithms and content curation are ruining our lives, and society

Why tech monopolies and failing markets make privacy so pathetic

The realistic issues with breaking up big tech and better solutions to tech monopolies

Why encryption is critical to the future of democracy

The impossible problem of backdoors and security

How the US government seeks to Chinese surveillance

What to do about the Trump Twitter problem

Why privacy is the big issue going forward

Which tech giants worry Cindy most

What to do about the collective action problem

Why the implications of brain-machine interfaces terrify Cindy

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