[$] Cindy Cohn on privacy battles old and new

Cindy Cohn is the executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) andshe gave the Saturday morning keynote at SCALE 23x in Pasadenaabout some of the work she and others have done to help protect onlinerights, especially digital privacy. The talk recounted some of the historyof the court cases that the organization has brought over the years to tryto dial back privacy invasions. One underlying theme was therole that attendees can play in protecting our rights, hearkening back toearlier efforts by the technical community.