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Cindy Cohn Is Leaving the EFF, but Not the Fight for Digital Rights
After 25 years at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Cindy Cohn is stepping down as executive director. In a WIRED interview, she reflects on encryption, AI, and why she’s not ready to quit the battle.
I think it's especially important now that we do something about the misuse of national security arguments and secrecy, because in the hands of the Trump administration, it's become an all-purpose tool to go after political enemies, violate people’s rights, and to do so many other things that we have been warning about for years. The statewide work is great, but we're also trying to really partner with local groups on a community level because this kind of mass surveillance is coming to them very fast now and they’re asking us, “What do we do about these automated license plate readers? If everything was magically going well and governments were great and benevolent and companies were doing the right thing, you wouldn't need a digital civil society or an organization filled with fighty lawyers, technologists, and activists.
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