After a quarter century defending digital rights, Cindy Cohn announced on Tuesday that she is stepping down as executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Cohn, who has led the San Francisco–based nonprofit since 2015, says she will leave the role later this year, concluding a chapter that helped define the modern fight over online freedom.

Cohn first rose to prominence as lead counsel in Bernstein v. Department of Justice , the 1990s case that overturned federal restrictions on publishing encryption code. As EFF’s legal director and later executive director, she guided the group through legal challenges to government surveillance , reforms to computer crime laws, and efforts to hold corporations accountable for data collection. Over the past decade, EFF has expanded

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