Privacy's Defender

What Hacker News says

1. BarbingMay 2026

     “For individuals like you and me, privacy is fundamentally for control—for giving us control over who can know what we do, where we do it, and who we do it with. In that way it is fundamental to our individual safety, dignity, and human rights.
           But here’s the broader, less talked about thing that privacy is for—one that has animated my work for thirty years: privacy is a check on power.
           Privacy limits the power of individuals over each other. It limits the power of governments over us. It also limits the power of corporations over us. Privacy allows people to protect themselves while creating a space to think, connect, communicate, share, and most critically, organize for change.”
   

   Excerpt From Privacy's Defender, Cindy Cohn - hooked here just a few pages in
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2. jperoutekApr 2026
   Didn't see it in the actual text of the article, but as a caption of one of the images. The actual book this is excerpted from is Privacy's Defender by Cindy Cohn https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262051248/privacys-defender/
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