How to Fight for a Fair and Free Digital Landscape
Hosted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, founded in 1990, is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. EFF champions user privacy, free expression, innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development, to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world. Come join some leading figures at EFF for an interactive conversation in which we’ll share information and ideas at the juncture of the environmental, social and digital struggles for a better future. Topics will include: tools to protect environmental defenders from surveillance; legal strategies to combat governmental and corporate tracking and censoring; how researchers and activists can successfully fight for open access to information and data; and more. Let’s talk about what more we can do together. Moderated by Cindy Cohn, EFF Executive Director. With: Cooper Quintin, EFF Senior Staff Technologist; Mario Trujillo, EFF Staff Attorney; nash Sheard, EFF Managing Director, Advocacy; Beryl Lipton, EFF Investigative Researcher.
Magnes Museum
March 28th | 3:00 pm to 4:15 pm
Panelists
Cindy Cohn
Executive Director
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Cindy Cohn, the Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation since 2015, served as EFF’s Legal Director as well as its General Counsel from 2000 to 2015. In 1993, she served as lead attorney in Bernstein v. Dept. of Justice, the successful First Amendment challenge to the U.S. export restrictions on cryptography. Among other honors, Ms. Cohn was named to The Non-Profit Times 2020 Power & Influence TOP 50 list, and in 2018, Forbes included Ms. Cohn as one of America's Top 50 Women in Tech. In 2013, The National Law Journal named Ms. Cohn one of 100 most influential lawyers in America, noting: "If Big Brother is watching, he better look out for Cindy Cohn."
Cooper Quintin
Senior Staff Technologist
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Cooper Quintin, a security researcher and senior public interest technologist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation Threat Lab and a board member of Open Archive, has worked on projects including Privacy Badger, Canary Watch, and the analysis of state-sponsored malware campaigns such as Dark Caracal. He has given talks about security research at prestigious security conferences including Black Hat, DEFCON, Enigma, and ReCon and has been published or quoted in a wide range of publications including The New York Times, Reuters, NPR, CNN, and Al Jazeera. Cooper has given security trainings for activists, nonprofit workers, and vulnerable populations around the world.
Mario Trujillo
Staff Attorney
Electronic Frontier Foundation
F. Mario Trujillo, J.D., is a Staff Attorney on the Electronic Frontier Foundation's civil liberties team, where he focuses on the Fourth Amendment and privacy rights. He is also part of the Coders' Rights Project. Prior to joining EFF, Mario was an attorney at the privacy law firm ZwillGen and clerked for a federal magistrate judge on the southern border. Before law school, Mario worked as a technology policy reporter at The Hill newspaper.
nash Sheard
Managing Director, Advocacy
Electronic Frontier Foundation
nash Sheard, Managing Director for Advocacy at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), works to assure that the organization's work is impactful, collaborative, and innovative. Before joining the executive team, nash led EFF's grassroots, student, and community organizing efforts, supporting member organizations of the Electronic Frontier Alliance in educating their neighbors on digital-privacy best practices and advocating for privacy and innovation-protecting policy and legislation.
Beryl Lipton
