Cindy Cohn

Executive Director

Electronic Frontier Foundation

California

Artificial Intelligence Cryptography Cybersecurity Free Speech Law Litigation National Security Privacy

Cindy Cohn is the Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. From 2000-2015 she served as EFF’s Legal Director as well as its General Counsel.

The National Law Journal named Ms. Cohn one of 100 most influential lawyers in America in 2013, noting: "[I]f 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 2010 the Intellectual Property Section of the State Bar of California awarded her its Intellectual Property Vanguard Award and in 2012 the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists awarded her the James Madison Freedom of Information Award.

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Keywords: law, mass surveillance, NSA, civil liberties, encryption, electronic voting, security, digital copyright, EFF, free speech, fourth amendment, first amendment, human rights

Cindy Cohn

Executive Director

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