Cindy Cohn
Cindy Cohn
Cindy Cohn is an American civil liberties attorney specializing in Internet law. She represented Daniel J. Bernstein and the Electronic Frontier Foundation in Bernstein v. United States. In 1997 she was recognized by California Lawyer Magazine as one of the Lawyers of the Year for this work. After serving for 15 years as Legal Director and General Counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, she became its Executive Director in 2015. In 2006, Ms. Cohn was named one of the 100...
happy questions tenor
We are pretty happy with the tenor of the questions asked.
abandon access auction box preferred view
I think they need to abandon this plan. The ISPs' view that they can auction off preferred access to my e-mail box is really wrong.... It's not the ISPs' to sell.
computers fans install listen music privacy software
Music fans shouldn't have to install potentially dangerous, privacy intrusive software on their computers just to listen to the music they've legitimately purchased.
censorship government system
The DMCA set up a system where, essentially, the government outsourced censorship of science,
measure
This isn't really an anti-spam measure as much as a 'pay to speak' e-mail measure.
appears people situation structure technology ways wrote
This appears to be a situation where the technology is overtaking the regulatory structure in ways that were not anticipated by the people who wrote the regulations.
companies given happen horrible sit sufficient until
It makes sense for all of these companies to sit down and think about this they have not given it sufficient thought until now. It's unfortunate that some horrible things had to happen for them to think about it.
attempt case channels create limits specific
They attempt to create specific upper limits on how much encryption you can have, in this case how many channels you can have.
force gross human military nigerian resulted rights security
Chevron used the Nigerian military as their security force and that resulted in gross human rights violations.
attention audience groups guys hear reaching starting wants
The big nonprofits are getting the attention here, but this isn't really just for them. What about the little guys that are just starting and may not be reaching an audience who wants to hear what they have to say? These are the groups that will lose.
people
I think that's creepy, and most people think that's creepy, and it's not disclosed.
computers content copying effective exposing hope record risk run similar stopping technology twice
We hope this settlement will make a lot of content holders, especially record companies, think twice about going down a similar road. Technology that is effective at stopping copying will always run the risk of exposing computers to hackers.
bought good people
We think it's a good settlement for people who bought the discs.
information issue judge present
We think this information should be public. But we thought the appropriate thing to do was to present the issue to the judge and let the judge make the call.