(from Prairie Lights Books)
Cindy Cohn will read from her new book, Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance, and will be joined in conversation by University of Iowa professors Mihailis Diamantis and Rishab Nithyanand. Described as "A personal chronicle of three key legal privacy battles that have defined the digital age and shaped the internet as we know it," Privacy's Defender is praised by Lawrence Lessig, author of How to Steal a Presidential Election, as "show[ing] why the fight for privacy is worth having," while Bruce Schneier, coauthor of Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship, says: "Privacy’s Defender is an important read for people who care about privacy and security. A wild ride and a hopeful example for anyone who has wondered what it’s like to spend your life working toward a better world."

Cindy Cohn is Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. From 2000 to 2015, she served as EFF’s Legal Director as well as its General Counsel. Today, she spearheads a team of more than 120 lawyers, activists, and technologists who are dedicated to ensuring that technology supports speech, privacy, and innovation for all the people of the world.

Mihailis Diamantis is the Ben V. Willie Professor of Excellence at the University of Iowa College of Law whose legal research focuses on corporate crime and criminal theory. He also holds a courtesy appointment with the Department of Philosophy.

Rishab Nithyanand is the F. Wendell Miller Associate Professor, an Emeriti-Faculty Scholar, and CLAS Dean’s Scholar in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Iowa where he leads the SPARTA lab. He also holds a courtesy appointment in the College of Law and co-directs the Center for Publics, Platforms, and Personalization (CP3).