Privacy is about control —Cindy Cohn from the EFF about her new book

I spoke with Cindy Cohn , the legend of the fight for privacy in the United States, on the occasion of her new book: Privacy’s defender. My thirty-year fight against digital surveillance (The MIT Press, 2026). “Some people think privacy is synonymous with keeping secrets, but I don’t think so. I think it’s about control. (...) It’s about my decision about what to reveal, not a company’s or the government’s. I make my own decisions about that. A big part of what privacy means is that: autonomy and personal control,” Cohn told me. We talked about privacy and why it is important today as it was before. We also take care about government and private surveillance, what should the new generation of privacy advocates be like, and the most urgent challenges today. This is Economicón, the interview program about privacy and the information society from Mexico. 🍐 Economicón: haciendo simple la información complicada. Suscríbete al newsletter en Substack: ⁠ https://privacidad.substack.com/⁠