A Conversation with Baroness Beeban Kidron on Child Online Safety

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Cindy Cohn on How to Sustain the Fight Against Authoritarianism

Today's guest has spent thirty years on the front lines of one of the defining battles at the intersection of technology and democracy: privacy and the fight for who controls your digital life. Cindy Cohn is the executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and ...  Show more

In Age of Disruption, a Defense of Incrementalism

In their new book, Move Slow and Upgrade: The Power of Incremental Innovation, Evan Selinger, a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology and Albert Fox Cahn, founder in residence of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP), argue ...  Show more

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