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- Cindy Cohn's memoir 'Privacy's Defender' covers her thirty-year fight against digital surveillance, focusing on three major legal battles.
- The first battle was in the 1990s to free cryptography from federal government control, establishing that code is speech protected by the First Amendment.
- The second battle involved reining in NSA spying, starting with Mark Klein's whistleblowing in 2006 and continuing through Edward Snowden's revelations.
- The third battle targeted unaccountable National Security Letters and the gag orders preventing companies from disclosing FBI data demands.
- The author is mentioned in the book for his role as EFF's technologist who secretly helped Edward Snowden before the leaks were revealed.