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Last Updated Nov 27, 2018, 12:00am EDT

Cindy Cohn built her national profile with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) when she served as outside lead attorney in the landmark 1993 tech case, Bernstein v. Department of Justice. The ruling found that software source code is speech protected by the Constitution and the government's regulations preventing its publication are unconstitutional. Cohn officially joined EFF as legal director in 2000 and became executive director in 2015. She is widely recognized as a top expert in how secretive programs work. Currently, Cohn is serving as counsel for two other cases, Jewel v. NSA, and F... Read More

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