EFF Leader Discusses Surveillance Fight in New Book Launch

EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn is releasing Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance, detailing her three-decade legal campaign against federal agencies over digital privacy rights.

Key Facts:

• Book covers confrontations with the Justice Department, NSA, and FBI
• Central thesis: whether private conversations remain possible in an online-dependent society
• Launch event: livestreamed conversation between Cohn and 404 Media cofounder Jason Koebler
• Published: March 2026

What's Notable: The timing places this memoir during an era of renewed surveillance debates. Cohn's documented conflicts with three major federal law enforcement/intelligence agencies represent institutional friction points that shaped modern digital privacy jurisprudence. The livestream format (rather than traditional book tour) suggests accessibility prioritization—consistent with EFF's organizational mission.

Missing Context: No publication date specified. No distribution channels listed. No indication of which specific cases the narrative prioritizes. The announcement reads as preliminary, with the livestream link truncated mid-sentence.

Source: EFF Deeplinks (eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03)

Developing — additional details on event date and distribution expected.