In 2004, Nick Merrill, a 30-year-old New York ISP owner, got a knock on his office door. The man standing there looked like an FBI agent from central casting: gray hair, side part, tan trench…
Cindy Cohn — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Cindy Cohn has appeared on 3 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including Darknet Diaries, Hard Fork, Taylor Lorenz’s Power User. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What Cindy said
“What I tell all the tech companies is look, if you stand with your users, we will stand with you. And if you stand against your users, we're gonna be the first in line.”
— Cindy Cohn
“If it were game over, they'd stop spying on us, right? Like they're not like, oh, we're gonna unplug the spying machine because we've got everything we need, folks.”
— Cindy Cohn on privacy nihilism
Episode appearances
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Satya Nadella took the stage at Hard Fork Live in 2026 carrying a specific piece of merchandise: a sweatshirt from "Microsoft Advanced AI Research," a division that never existed. The sweatshirt…
🎙️ The Voices & The Context The Format: A deep, conversational interview between a host and a privacy expert. It feels like a fireside chat for the digital age—intellectual but accessible. The…
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