What Does A Tech Positive Future Look Like? With Jonathan Zittrain and Cindy Cohn
Channel: EFForg
Date: 27/07/2018

Watch a conversation with EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn and Harvard's Jonathan Zittrain as they discuss what a tech-positive future looks like—and how we can get there.

Over the last few years, technology and Internet companies have seemed to only make things more difficult for users. When we've seen Comcast, Facebook, Google, Uber, Tesla, and many others in the news, it's been because of mistreated data, mishandled scandals, or misled customers.

Governments around the world have also taken steps backwards when it comes to online rights—from the online censorship bill SESTA and the overturning of net neutrality in the U.S., to growing (and continuing) oppression of journalists and software developers in countries like Egypt and Iran.

But it doesn't have to be this way.

Jonathan Zittrain is a Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and co-founder and Faculty Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law, an member of the board at EFF, and the author of several books including "The Future of the Internet -- And How to Stop It."

Cindy Cohn is the Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. From 2000-2015 she served as EFF’s Legal Director as well as its General Counsel. Ms. Cohn first became involved with EFF in 1993, when EFF asked her to serve as the outside lead attorney in Bernstein v. Dept. of Justice, the successful First Amendment challenge to the U.S. export restrictions on cryptography.