Back in 2022 when Cindy Cohn, the executive director of a US digital rights nonprofit called the Electronic Frontier Foundation, started writing her memoir, Privacy’s Defender, she worried that people would think she was an “old fuddy duddy” still sounding alarms about government spying online. As one of EFF’s first litigators and then its longtime leader, Cohn witnessed firsthand how government surveillance became one of the earliest concerns for civil ri