Episodes
We cannot build a better future unless we can envision it. Join us in conversations with people who are helping to chart the course for fixing the Internet — to make it a more equitable, hopeful, creative place. Executive Director Cindy Cohn returns alongside new co-host Jason Kelley, Associate Director of Digital Strategy at EFF. We’ll dig into fixing our most vexing digital problems with an incredible list of guests including Dave Eggers, Andrew "Bunnie" Huang, Annalee Newitz, Catherine...
Published 01/09/23
Cindy Cohn is returning with a new season of "How to Fix the Internet." This time she is bringing Jason Kelley along as her co-host. Jason is the Associate Director of Digital Strategy at EFF. Together they will welcome an incredible list of guests including Andrew "Bunnie" Huang, Catherine Bracy, Trevor Paglen, Deji Olukotun, Dave Eggers, Alice Marwick, and Kendra Albert. New season drops in the new year!
Published 11/09/22
What makes a grassroots movement for better tech effective? Join Glitch CEO Anil Dash as he talks to Cindy and Danny about how to make tech relevant to those outside of the space, and how to know when you are winning at getting the change you are fighting for.
Published 05/31/22
Pam Smith has been working to secure US elections for years, and now as the CEO of Verified Voting, she has some important ideas about the role the internet plays in American democracy. Pam joins Cindy and Danny to explain how elections can be more transparent and more engaging for all.
Published 05/24/22
Rediet Abebe knows that there is a better way to build things so that the communities get what they need and Machine Learning technologies are used in an ethical way. The Berkeley Computer Science professor and co-founder of Black in AI and MD4SG joins Cindy and Danny to talk about how computer scientists can build better tools for good.
Published 05/17/22
James Mickens is a lifelong hacker and a professor at Harvard, and he knows too well where the gaps are when it comes to training computer scientists to think about the consequences of what they build. He takes Cindy and Danny on a journey through his philosophy of making better tech for all.
Published 05/10/22
Ora Tanner is a teacher- and when she realized that her students didn’t understand the role AI and Machine Learning plays in our lives, she decided to do something about it. She joins Cindy and Danny to talk about how eye opening it can be to tell young people about how the choices they have are put there.
Published 05/03/22
Adam Savage builds things, and he builds community. The open web is important for both, and he talks to Cindy and Danny about all the ways open ideas make for a better world.
Published 04/12/22
What if we could find better ways to interact with the government beyond voting, so that it did what we needed, and we got to have more say in what that was? Technology can make it easier—but it brings its own set of problems.
Published 04/05/22
Our lives are full of things that are connected online- but in each of those devices lays dark corners where threats can lurk. Join security expert Window Snyder as she explains how to build the Internet of Secured Things.
Published 03/29/22
Giving young people the tools to create a better online world through computer programming means also giving them the power to fix our real world. But what happens when educators stand in the way?
Published 03/22/22
Laura Poitras is an Oscar winning documentary filmmaker who spent years on the NSAs watch list because of her work exposing how people were being surveilled by the US government.
Published 03/15/22
Our guest from Season 2, Ethan Zuckerman, has his own podcast: Reimagining the Internet. He had EFF's Jillian York as a guest on his show, and we thought you'd like to have a listen to it.
Published 03/08/22
WTF is up with patent trolls? Podcast host and comedian Marc Maron and his producer Brendan McDonald explain how they took action when some patent troll “grifters” tried to shake them down.
Published 02/01/22
The internet world we live in was not built with the needs of everyone in mind and the tools we have now don’t serve us in the way they could. What if we reimagined a way to fix the internet?
Published 01/25/22
The way you spend your money is a window into how you live your life, but we need a zone of safety around our purchases so we can live free.
Published 01/18/22
The United States already has laws against redlining, but companies can still use other data to advertise goods and services to you—which can have big implications for the prices you see.
Published 01/11/22
Creating a movement to fix the internet happens when many people take action to make things better. Find out how to get that party started.
Published 12/21/21
The encryption on your devices is like a windshield, keeping you safe every day as you go about your business. Why do some law enforcement agencies want to put a crack in it, instead of sealing it up and protecting your safety and freedom?
Published 12/14/21
There is a hidden army of security researchers fixing the Internet by searching for vulnerabilities in our tech. If only the companies making our tech would listen, we’d all be a lot safer.
Published 12/07/21
Online content moderation is a mess. How can it get better?
Published 11/30/21
The open source movement focuses on collaboration and the empowerment of users and so plays a critical role in building a better digital future. But the movement many are familiar with is changing as more people from around the world join and bring their diverse interests with them.
Published 11/23/21
If you get pulled over and a police officer asks for your phone, beware. Local police now have sophisticated tools that can download your location and browsing history, texts, contacts, and photos to keep or share forever. Join EFF’s Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien as they talk to Upturn’s Harlan Yu about a better way for police to treat you and your data.
Published 11/16/21
How to Fix the Internet from the Electronic Frontier Foundation brings you ideas, solutions, and pathways to a better digital future for all.
Published 11/09/21
Chris Lewis joins EFF hosts Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien as they discuss how our access to knowledge is increasingly governed by click-wrap agreements that prevent users from ever owning things like books and music, and how this undermines the legal doctrine of “first sale” – which states that once you buy a copyrighted work, it’s yours to resell or give it away as you choose. They talk through the ramifications of this shift, and how the digital world would thrive if we safeguard digital...
Published 12/08/20