Friday, April 17, 2026
LWV-Downeast
Mass surveillance constitutes a threat to free speech. Commercial and government surveillance infrastructure has grown and continues to grow, encompassing license plate readers, location tracking, and facial recognition and other biometric data. How do these invasions of privacy threaten free speech? What protections should individuals and civil society adopt to protect civil liberties?
Special guests:
- Cindy Cohn, Former Executive Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), author of the book, Privacy's Defender.
- Hannah Cyrus, Digital Media Librarian, Bangor Public Library
- Cooper Quintin, security researcher and senior public interest technologist with the EFF Threat Lab and board member of Open Archive.
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