The internet is broken—but it doesn’t have to be. If you’re concerned about how surveillance, online advertising, and automated content moderation are hurting us online and offline, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s How to Fix the Internet podcast offers a better way forward. EFF has been defending your rights online for over thirty years and is behind many of the biggest digital rights protections since the invention of the internet. Through curious conversations with some of the leading minds in law and technology, this podcast explores creative solutions to some of today’s biggest tech challenges. Hosted by EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn and EFF Associate Director of Digital Strategy Jason Kelley, How to Fix the Internet will help you become deeply informed on vital technology issues as we work to build a better technological future together.
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Privacy's Defenders: Cowboys, Cypherpunks and Visionaries
People are increasingly concerned about the ways in which mass surveillance is tracking our every move: from Flock license plate readers to face recognition to creepy ads
Sep 29 29 min
Bonus Episode: Privacy’s Defender
While How to Fix the Internet is on hiatus, we wanted to share a great conversation with you from earlier this week. EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn spoke with bestsell
Mar 17 1 h 07 min
Introducing EFFector: How Targeted Advertising Gives Your Location to the Government
A new podcast from the Electronic Frontier Foundation: The digital world isn't just a place you visit on your phone. It's the battleground where tomorrow's civil libertie
Mar 11 17 min
Building and Preserving the Library of Everything
All this season, “How to Fix the Internet” has been focusing on the tools and technology of freedom – and one of the most important tools of freedom is a library. Access
Sep 10 2025 42 min
Protecting Privacy in Your Brain
The human brain might be the grandest computer of all, but in this episode, we talk to two experts who confirm that the ability for tech to decipher thoughts, and perhaps
Aug 27 2025 38 min
Separating AI Hope from AI Hype
If you believe the hype, artificial intelligence will soon take all our jobs, or solve all our problems, or destroy all boundaries between reality and lies, or help us li
Aug 13 2025 39 min
Smashing the Tech Oligarchy
Many of the internet’s thorniest problems can be attributed to the concentration of power in a few corporate hands: the surveillance capitalism that makes it profitable t
Jul 30 2025 29 min
Finding the Joy in Digital Security
Many people approach digital security training with furrowed brows, as an obstacle to overcome. But what if learning to keep your tech safe and secure was consistently pl
Jul 16 2025 40 min
Cryptography Makes a Post-Quantum Leap
The cryptography that protects our privacy and security online relies on the fact that even the strongest computers will take essentially forever to do certain tasks, lik
Jul 2 2025 32 min
Securing Journalism on the ‘Data-Greedy’ Internet
Public-interest journalism speaks truth to power, so protecting press freedom is part of protecting democracy. But what does it take to digitally secure journalists’ work
Jun 18 2025 39 min
Why Three is Tor's Magic Number
Many in Silicon Valley, and in U.S. business at large, seem to believe innovation springs only from competition, a race to build the next big thing first, cheaper, better
Jun 4 2025 30 min
Love the Internet Before You Hate On It
There’s a weird belief out there that tech critics hate technology. But do movie critics hate movies? Do food critics hate food? No! The most effective, insightful critic
May 21 2025 39 min
Digital Autonomy for Bodily Autonomy
We all leave digital trails as we navigate the internet – records of what we searched for, what we bought, who we talked to, where we went or want to go in the real world
May 7 2025 39 min
Coming Soon: How to Fix the Internet Season Six
Now more than ever, we need to build, reinforce, and protect the tools and technology that support our freedom. EFF’s How to Fix the Internet returns with another season
Apr 23 2025 1 min
Vote for “How to Fix the Internet” in the Webby Awards People's Voice Competition!
EFF’s “How to Fix the Internet” podcast is a nominee in the Webby Awards 29th Annual People's Voice competition – and we need your support to bring the trophy home! Votin
Apr 8 2025 1 min
Rerelease - Dr. Seuss Warned Us
This episode was first released on May 2, 2023.
Dr. Seuss wrote a story about a Hawtch-Hawtcher Bee-Watcher whose job it is to watch his town’s one lazy bee, because
Mar 23 2025 30 min
Rerelease - So You Think You're a Critical Thinker
This episode was first released on March 21, 2023.
The promise of the internet was that it would be a tool to melt barriers and aid truth-seekers everywhere. But it
Oct 11 2024 43 min
Fighting Enshittification
The early internet had a lot of “technological self-determination" — you could opt out of things, protect your privacy, control your experience. The problem was that it t
Jul 2 2024 39 min
AI in Kitopia
Artificial intelligence will neither solve all our problems nor likely destroy the world, but it could help make our lives better if it’s both transparent enough for ever
Jun 18 2024 38 min
AI on the Artist’s Palette
Collaging, remixing, sampling—art always has been more than the sum of its parts, a synthesis of elements and ideas that produces something new and thought-provoking. Tec
Jun 4 2024 38 min
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This podcast is so insightful and I’ve enjoyed every episode I’ve listened to so far! Cindy and Jason are very skilled interviewers - I love how they lead meaningful conversations with leaders who bring so much experience and actionable insight to the table. Highly recommend checking this show out - you won’t be disappointed!
ASobering · Feb 2023
This explains a lot of complicated concepts in plain English anyone can understand. It really shows us what is going on, how we can get involved, and provides different avenues to strengthen our digital rights. If you care at all about your rights, privacy, or the internet you need to hear this.
The Blank Generation · Nov 2021
Just like the rest of EFF’s work, this podcast is spectacular. I really enjoyed hearing from a variety of experts in their field and the hosts do well in teaching me about a topic.
iChrisRomero · Nov 2020
I had no idea how ignorant I was, and how necessary this podcast is. This is something everyone should listen to and share. Bring it into the sunlight!
Ted Kamradt · Apr 2021
I really wish I could say I liked this one; the premise is important and interesting and the topics are relevant. Unfortunately the actual discussion of what are arguably complex technology and policy issues are treated with only the most superficial level of analysis. Contrary arguments are effectively presented as strawmen effectively amounting to, “this is what powerful interests (e.g. tech and media companies) want.”
Almost no nuanced consideration given to how to balance competing, valid interests. Instead an inordinate amount of time is devoted to self-important monologues and riding left-wing hobby horses.
In other words, don’t expect to come away convinced unless you’re already sympathetic to the hosts’ politics; something which is very unfortunate, given the complexity of these issues and the otherwise important work EFF does.
Professor Nuke · Dec 2020
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