Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
“The ruling in Bernstein v. Department of Justice held that code is speech and so is protected by the First Amendment – a precedent that underpins the internet as we know it today. This landmark case was led by Cindy Cohn, then a young pro bono lawyer working on behalf of EFF, who went on to become EFF’s legal director and then executive director.” (10/13/26)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/privacys-defenders-podcast-no-privacy-without-encryption