Bonus Podcast Episode: Privacy’s Defender - Cindy Cohn with Cory Doctorow

Mar 17, 2026 · 234 words · By Josh Richman

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What to know about Bonus Podcast Episode: Privacy’s Defender - Cindy Cohn with Cory Doctorow

While How to Fix the Internet is on hiatus, we wanted to share a great conversation with you from last week.

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What happened

While How to Fix the Internet is on hiatus, we wanted to share a great conversation with you from last week.

Why it matters

EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn spoke with bestselling novelist, journalist, and EFF Special Advisor Cory Doctorow about Cindy’s new book, “Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance” (MIT Press).

Common ground

You can also listen to this episode on the Internet Archive or watch the video on YouTube.

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What concrete event or decision sits underneath the headline: Bonus Podcast Episode: Privacy’s Defender - Cindy Cohn with Cory Doctorow?
What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that For more about the book and Cindy’s national book tour - with stops in places including Seattle, Silicon Valley, Denver, Boston, Ann Arbor, Iowa City, Washington DC and New York City - check out https://www.eff.org/Privacys-Defender?
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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 6 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “For more about the book and Cindy’s national book tour - with stops in places including Seattle, Silicon Valley, Denver, Boston, Ann Arbor, Iowa City, Washington DC and New York City - check out https://www.eff.org/Privacys-Defender”

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The claim lists specific tour stops. While one web search result mentions a book tour for Cindy Cohn, it only provides a future date (May 19, 2026) and does not confirm the entire list of cities (Seattle, Silicon Valley, Denver, Boston, Ann Arbor, Iowa City, Washington DC, and New York City) mentioned in the claim. The other evidence found is unrelated to the tour itinerary.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Aaron Hillel Swartz (November 8, 1986 – January 11, 2013), also known as AaronSw, was an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, writer, political organizer, and Internet hacktivist. As a programm…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is an initiative by the second Trump administration in the United States. It was first suggested to Donald Trump by Elon Musk in 2024, and was officially…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The San Francisco 49ers (also written as the San Francisco Forty-Niners and nicknamed the Niners) are a professional American football team based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The 49ers compete in th…
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Claim 2: “Resources: The Crypto Wars: Bernstein v. US Department of Justice”

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Multiple web search results reference 'Bernstein v. United States' or 'Bernstein v. Department of Justice' in the context of crypto law and encryption, confirming the case name and its relevance to the 'crypto wars' topic.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Code as speech is the legal and philosophical doctrine in the United States that computer source code and similar digital expressions are forms of speech protected by the First Amendment. The idea eme…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Daniel Julius Bernstein (born October 29, 1971) is an American mathematician, cryptologist, and computer scientist. He is a professor of computer science at the University of Illinois Chicago. He was …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Keonne Rodriguez is an American software developer and co-founder of Samourai Wallet, a Bitcoin Mixer designed to enhance transaction privacy for Bitcoin users. In 2024, Rodriguez and fellow co-founde…
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Claim 3: “This conversation was recorded on Tuesday, March 10 in front of a packed house at San Francisco’s iconic City Lights Bookstore.”

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Multiple web search results explicitly state that the conversation between Cindy Cohn and Cory Doctorow was recorded on Tuesday, March 10, at City Lights Bookstore, confirming the core details of the claim.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an American international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 1990 to promote Internet civil liberties. It…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) conference series is a hacker convention sponsored by the security hacker magazine 2600: The Hacker Quarterly that until 2020 was typically held at Hotel Pennsylvani…
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Claim 4: “Resources: NSA Spying: Jewel v. NSA”

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Multiple web search results and Wikipedia entries reference 'Jewel v. NSA' in the context of challenging NSA surveillance, confirming the case's existence and relevance.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — NSA warrantless surveillance — also commonly referred to as "warrantless-wiretapping" or "-wiretaps" — was the surveillance of persons within the United States, including U.S. citizens, during the col…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The National Security Agency (NSA) is an intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the director of national intelligence (DNI). The NSA is responsible for …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — During the 2010s, international media reports revealed new operational details about the Anglophone cryptographic agencies' global surveillance of both foreign and domestic nationals. The reports most…
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Claim 5: “Resources: EFF’s National Security Letter lawsuits”

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One web search result mentions 'EFF's National Security Letter lawsuits' in the context of challenging government censorship, but there are no other independent sources or Wikipedia entries confirming this specific grouping of lawsuits. The other evidence found for EFF relates to different topics (e.g., the EFF itself or general national security letters).

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web search NEUTRAL — The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) is a South African communist and black nationalist political party. It was founded by expelled former African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) president Juliu…
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web search NEUTRAL — EFF and ACLU Ask Ninth Circuit to Overturn Government’s Censorship of Twitter’s Transparency Report. Citing national security concerns, the government is attempting to infringe on Twitter's First Amen…
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Claim 6: “Resources: NSA Spying: Hepting v. AT&T”

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Multiple web search results and Wikipedia entries reference 'Hepting v. AT&T' in connection with NSA spying and illegal surveillance, confirming the case's existence and context.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hepting v. AT&T, 439 F.Supp.2d 974 (N.D. Cal., 2006), was a class action lawsuit argued before the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, filed by Electronic Frontier Fo…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Room 641A is a telecommunication interception facility operated by AT&T for the U.S. National Security Agency, as part of an American mass surveillance program. The facility commenced operations in 20…
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