Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Electronic Frontier Foundation
AbbreviationEFF
FormationJune 10, 1990;34 years ago (1990-06-10)
Founders Mitch Kapor, John Gilmore and John Perry Barlow
Type Nonprofit
04-3091431
Purpose Digital rights
Headquarters San Francisco, California, U.S.
Region
Worldwide
Membership40,000
Website www.eff.org OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 1990 to promote Internet civil liberties.

Contents

It provides funds for legal defense in court, presents amicus curiae briefs, defends individuals and new technologies from what it considers abusive legal threats, works to expose government malfeasance, provides guidance to the government and courts, organizes political action and mass mailings, supports some new technologies which it believes preserve personal freedoms and online civil liberties, maintains a database and web sites of related news and information, monitors and challenges potential legislation that it believes would infringe on personal liberties and fair use, and solicits a list of what it considers are abusive patents with intentions to defeat those that it considers are without merit.

History

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EFF logo used until July 2018
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Electronic Frontier Foundation founders Kapor, Gilmore and Barlow

Foundation

The Electronic Frontier Foundation was formed in July 1990 by John Gilmore, John Perry Barlow and Mitch Kapor in response to a series of actions by law enforcement agencies that led them to conclude that the authorities were gravely uninformed about emerging forms of online communication, [1] [ unreliable source? ] and that there was a need for increased protection for Internet civil liberties.

In April 1990, Barlow had been visited by a U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation agent in relation to the theft and distribution of the source code for a series of Macintosh ROMs. Barlow described the visit as "complicated by [the agent's] fairly complete unfamiliarity with computer technology. I realized right away that before I could demonstrate my innocence, I would first have to explain to him what guilt might be." Barlow felt that his experience was symptomatic of a "great paroxysm of governmental confusion during which everyone's liberties would become at risk". [2] [ non-primary source needed ]

Barlow posted an account of this experience to The WELL online community and was contacted by Mitch Kapor, who had had a similar experience. The pair agreed that there was a need to defend civil liberties on the Internet. Kapor agreed to fund any legal fees associated with such a defense and the pair contacted New York lawyers Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky and Lieberman about defending several computer hackers from a Harper's magazine forum on computers and freedom who had been the target of Secret Service raids. [1] [ unreliable source? ] This generated a large amount of publicity which led to offers of financial support from John Gilmore and Steve Wozniak. Barlow and Kapor continued to research conflicts between the government and technology and in June 1990, Barlow posted online the influential article titled "Crime & Puzzlement" in which Barlow announced his and Kapor's plans to create an organization to "raise and disburse funds for education, lobbying, and litigation in the areas relating to digital speech and the extension of the Constitution into Cyberspace." [3] [ non-primary source needed ]

This generated further reaction and support for the ideas of Barlow and Kapor. In late June, Barlow held a series of dinners in San Francisco with major figures in the computer industry to develop a coherent response to these perceived threats. Barlow considered that: "The actions of the FBI and Secret Service were symptoms of a growing social crisis: Future Shock. America was entering the Information Age with neither laws nor metaphors for the appropriate protection and conveyance of information itself." [4] [ non-primary source needed ] Barlow felt that to confront this a formal organization would be needed; he hired Cathy Cook as press coordinator, and began to set up what would become the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation was formally founded on July 10, 1990, by Kapor and Barlow, who very soon after elected Gilmore, Wozniak, and Stewart Brand to join them on the board of directors. [4] [ non-primary source needed ] Initial funding was provided by Kapor, Wozniak, and an anonymous benefactor. [5] [ non-primary source needed ] [6] [ unreliable source? ]

In 1990, Mike Godwin joined the organization as its first staff counsel. Then in 1991, Esther Dyson and Jerry Berman joined the EFF board of directors. By 1992, Cliff Figallo became the director of the original office, and in December 1992, Jerry Berman became the acting executive director of the organization as a whole, based in a new second office.[ citation needed ]

Early cases

The creation of the organization was motivated by the massive search and seizure on Steve Jackson Games executed by the United States Secret Service early in 1990. Similar but officially unconnected law-enforcement raids were being conducted across the United States at about that time as part of a state–federal task force called Operation Sundevil. GURPS Cyberpunk , one of the game company's projects, was mistakenly labeled as a handbook for computer crime, [7] [ non-primary source needed ] and the Secret Service raided the offices of Steve Jackson Games. The search warrant for the raid was deemed hastily issued, and the games company soon after claimed unauthorized access as well as tampering of their emails. While phone calls were protected by legislation, digital emails were an early concept and had not been considered to fall under the right to personal privacy. The Steve Jackson Games case was the EFF's first high-profile case, was the major rallying point around which the EFF began promoting computer- and Internet-related civil liberties. [8] [ failed verification ]

The EFF's second big case was Bernstein v. United States led by Cindy Cohn, in which programmer and professor Daniel J. Bernstein sued the government for permission to publish his encryption software, Snuffle, and a paper describing it. More recently, the organization has been involved in defending Edward Felten, Jon Lech Johansen and Dmitry Sklyarov. [9] [ non-primary source needed ]

Expansion and development

In early 2010, EFF released this poster in celebration of its founding 20 years before. Electronic Frontier Foundation 20th anniversary mecha poster.jpg
In early 2010, EFF released this poster in celebration of its founding 20 years before.

The organization was originally located at Mitch Kapor's Kapor Enterprises offices in Boston. [10] By the fall of 1993, the main EFF offices were consolidated into a single office in Washington DC, [10] headed by Executive Director Jerry Berman. During this time, some of the EFF's attention focused on influencing national policy, [10] to the dislike of some of the members of the organization. [10] [11] In 1994, Berman parted ways with the EFF and formed the Center for Democracy and Technology, [10] while Drew Taubman briefly took the reins as executive director.

In 1995, under the auspices of Executive Director Lori Fena, after some downsizing and in an effort to regroup and refocus on their base of support, the organization moved offices to San Francisco, California. [10] [11] There, it took up temporary residence at John Gilmore's Toad Hall, and soon afterward moved into the Hamm's Building at 1550 Bryant St. After Fena moved onto the EFF board of directors for a while, the organization was led briefly by Tara Lemmey, followed by Barry Steinhardt (who had come from the closely allied Technology and Liberty Program at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and eventually returned to the ACLU). Not long before EFF's move into new offices at 454 Shotwell St. in SF's Mission District, Mike Godwin departed, long-time Legal Director Shari Steele was appointed executive director, and staff attorney Cindy Cohn became the legal director.

In the spring of 2006, the EFF announced the opening of an office again in Washington, D.C., with two new staff attorneys. [12] In 2012, the EFF began a fundraising campaign for the renovation of a building located at 815 Eddy Street in San Francisco, to serve as its new headquarters. [13] [ non-primary source needed ] The move was completed in April 2013. [14] [ non-primary source needed ] On April 1, 2015, Shari Steele stepped down as executive director. [15] [ non-primary source needed ] Cindy Cohn became the new executive director, Corynne McSherry became the legal director, and Kurt Opsahl became the general counsel.

DES cracker

By the mid-1990s the EFF was becoming seriously concerned about the refusal of the US government to license any secure encryption product for export unless it used key recovery and claims that governments could not decrypt information when protected by Data Encryption Standard (DES), continuing even after the public breaking of the code in the first of the DES Challenges. They coordinated and supported the construction of the EFF DES cracker (nicknamed Deep Crack), using special purpose hardware and software and costing $210,000. [16] [17] [ non-primary source needed ] This brought the record for breaking a message down to 56 hours on 17 July 1998 and to under 24 hours on 19 January 1999 (in conjunction with distributed.net).

The EFF published the plans and source code for the cracker. [18] Within four years the Advanced Encryption Standard was standardized as a replacement for DES. [19]

Activities

Legislative activity

The EFF is a leading supporter of the Email Privacy Act. [20] [ non-primary source needed ]

Litigation

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EFF booth at the 2010 RSA Conference

The EFF regularly brings and defends lawsuits at all levels of the US legal system in pursuit of its goals and objectives. The EFF has long taken a stance against strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPP) as attempts to stymie free speech and advocated for effective anti-SLAPP legislation. [21] [ failed verification ] [22] [ non-primary source needed ] Many of the most significant technology law cases have involved the EFF, including MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd. , Apple v. Does , and others.[ non-primary source needed ]

Hachette v. Internet Archive

The EFF represented the Internet Archive in Hachette v. Internet Archive. [23] [24] Following the COVID-19 pandemic, the Internet Archive introduced a digital book borrowing system which allows users to borrow digital copies of physical books the archive had in its physical location. The case was won by Hachette and the Internet Archive being forced to stop its digital book borrowing system. [25]

Patent Busting Project

The Patent Busting Project is an Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) initiative challenging patents that the organization describes as illegitimate and suppress innovation or limit online expression. The initiative launched on April 19, 2004, and involves two phases: documenting the damage caused by these patents, and submitting challenges to the United States Patent and Trademark Office. [26]

Enfranchisement activism

The EFF has long been an advocate of paper audit trails for voting machines and testified in support of them after the 2004 United States presidential election. [27] Later, it funded the research of Hariprasad Vemuru who exposed vulnerabilities in a particular model. [28] Since 2008, the EFF has operated the Our Vote Live website and database. Staffed by hotline volunteers, it is designed to quickly document irregularities and instances of voter suppression as they occur on an election day. [29]

The EFF was active in the 2016 United States presidential election because of online phishing related to the controversy over fabrication of election results. J. Alex Halderman, a computer security professor at the University of Michigan, wrote an article that was published in Medium in 2016 stating he thought it was advisable to have a recount on some of the election results from states like Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, exclusively states Hillary Clinton lost. [30] In retaliation against Halderman, a hacker sent anti-Semitic and racist emails to students at University of Michigan signed from Halderman. The EFF publicizes these controversies and promotes the reduction of online phishing. [31] [ non-primary source needed ]

Content moderation reform

In the spring of 2018, the EFF joined the Open Technology Institute (OTI), the Center for Democracy & Technology, the ACLU Foundation of Northern California and four academics in writing The Santa Clara Principles: On Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation. The document sets out the following guidelines for social networks. [32]

Six months later, the same organizations sought the support of roughly 80 others, including Article 19, in calling for Facebook to adopt the Santa Clara Principles. [33] This was later updated with a request for Facebook to warn users who have interacted with sock puppet law enforcement accounts. [34]

In 2019, the EFF and OTI delivered testimony about the Online Harms White Paper in the United Kingdom. They commented that several proposals to increase the amount of regulation on social media were open to abuse. [35] Also in 2019, the EFF launched the website "TOSsed out" to document cases of moderation rules being applied inconsistently. [36] [ unreliable source? ] Cindy Cohn underscored their commitment to upholding free speech online, writing that "once you've turned it on, whether through pressure or threats of lawsuits, the power to silence people doesn't just go in one direction." [37]

Protect the Stack

In December 2022, the EFF and 56 other digital advocacy organizations called for internet infrastructure providers to stop policing the content of the websites they service. [38] [ non-primary source needed ] The organizations argued that many providers can only moderate content by revoking access to an entire website, leaving end-users with little transparency or recourse. They expressed concern that governments may pressure infrastructure providers to deny service to opponents and marginalized groups, and that monopolistic infrastructure providers may take banned users offline altogether. The coalition believes that platforms and user-facing websites are better-positioned as moderators, because they can remove specific content, sanction accounts granularly, and offer reasoning and appeals for moderation decisions. [39] [ non-primary source needed ] [40]

The initiative was launched in the wake of Drop Kiwi Farms, a campaign that convinced several internet service providers and DDoS protection firms to revoke service to Kiwi Farms, a controversial forum. [41] [ non-primary source needed ] After the forum returned behind an open-source bot detection tool, the EFF stopped classifying DDoS protection services as infrastructure because they cannot determine whether a website stays online or not. [42] [ non-primary source needed ]

Awards

The EFF organizes two sets of awards to promote work in accordance with its goals and objectives.

EFF Awards

The EFF Awards, until 2022 called the EFF Pioneer Awards, are awarded annually to recognize individuals who in its opinion are "leaders who are extending freedom and innovation on the electronic frontier." [43] In 2017, the honorees were Chelsea Manning, Mike Masnick and Annie Game. [44]

EFF Cooperative Computing Awards

The EFF Cooperative Computing Awards are a series of four awards meant "to encourage ordinary Internet users to contribute to solving huge scientific problems", to be awarded to the first individual or group who discovers a prime number with a significant record number of decimal digits. The awards are funded by an anonymous donor. [45] [46] The awards are:

Publications

EFF publishes through several outlets such as the online periodical EFFector, [50] as well as its websites, blogs, and on social networking services.[ non-primary source needed ]

EFF's first book was published in 1993 as The Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet, a beginners' how-to manual by contracted technical writer Adam Gaffin, and made available for free download in many formats. MIT Press published it in paperback form in 1994 as Everybody's Guide to the Internet ( ISBN   9780262571050). The online edition was updated regularly throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, and translated into dozens of languages.[ non-primary source needed ]

The organization's second book, Protecting Yourself Online ( ISBN   9780062515124), an overview of digital civil liberties, was written in 1998 by technical writer Robert B. Gelman and EFF Communications Director Stanton McCandlish, and published by HarperCollins.[ non-primary source needed ]

A third book, Cracking DES: Secrets of Encryption Research, Wiretap Politics & Chip Design ( ISBN   9781565925205), focusing on EFF's DES Cracker project, was published the same year by O'Reilly Media.[ non-primary source needed ]

A digital book, Pwning Tomorrow, an anthology of speculative fiction, was produced in 2015 as part of EFF's 25th anniversary activities, and includes contributions from 22 writers, including Charlie Jane Anders, Paolo Bacigalupi, Lauren Beukes, David Brin, Pat Cadigan, Cory Doctorow, Neil Gaiman, Eileen Gunn, Kameron Hurley, James Patrick Kelly, Ramez Naam, Annalee Newitz, Hannu Rajaniemi, Rudy Rucker, Lewis Shiner, Bruce Sterling, and Charles Yu. [51] [ non-primary source needed ]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation's blog, DeepLinks, is a major section of its main website at EFF.org.[ non-primary source needed ]

The EFF sent a video message of support to global grassroots movement CryptoParty. [52] [ non-primary source needed ]

How to Fix the Internet (podcast)

EFF's How to Fix the Internet podcast won a 2024 Anthem Award. [53]

Software

The EFF has developed some software and browser add-ons, including Switzerland, HTTPS Everywhere, and Privacy Badger.[ citation needed ]

Secure Messaging Scorecard

The EFF conducted a project named Secure Messaging Scorecard which "evaluated apps and tools based on a set of seven specific criteria ranging from whether messages were encrypted in transit to whether or not the code had been recently audited." [54] [ non-primary source needed ]As of April 21,2017, a revised version is under development. [54] [ non-primary source needed ]

Support

As of 2021, Charity Navigator has given the EFF an overall rating of four out of four stars, including four stars for its financial efficiency and capacity. [55]

Financial

In 2011, the EFF received $1 million from Google as part of a settlement of a class action related to privacy issues involving Google Buzz. The Electronic Privacy Information Center and seven other privacy-focused nonprofits protested that the plaintiffs' lawyers and Google had, in effect, arranged to give the majority of those funds "to organizations that are currently paid by Google to lobby for or to consult for the company". An additional $1 million was obtained from Facebook in a similar settlement. [56]

Other

The agitprop art group Psychological Industries has independently issued buttons with pop culture tropes such as the logo of the Laughing Man from the anime series Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (with the original The Catcher in the Rye quotation replaced with the slogan of Anonymous), a bleeding roller derby jammer, and the "We Can Do It!" woman (often misidentified as Rosie the Riveter) on a series of buttons on behalf of the EFF. [57]

In late June 2014 the EFF flew a GEFA-FLUG AS 105 GD/4 [58] blimp owned by, and in conjunction with, Greenpeace over the NSA's Bluffdale-based Utah Data Center in protest against its purported illegal spying. [59]

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 Jones 2003 , p. 172
  2. ↑ "A Not Terribly Brief History of the Electronic Frontier Foundation". Electronic Frontier Foundation. 2014-07-15. Retrieved 2020-10-24.
  3. ↑ Barlow, John Perry (June 8, 1990). "Crime & Puzzlement". w2.EFF.org. Electronic Frontier Foundation. Archived from the original on 2014-10-24. Retrieved August 10, 2016.
  4. 1 2 Barlow, John (November 8, 1990). "A Not Terribly Brief History of the Electronic Frontier Foundation". Electronic Frontier Foundation. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved December 12, 2015.
  5. ↑ Kapor, Mitch; Barlow, John Perry (July 10, 1990). "Formation documents and mission statement for the EFF". Electronic Frontier Foundation. Archived from the original on 2015-12-04. Retrieved September 11, 2012.
  6. ↑ Lebkowsky, Jon (January 11, 1997). "TechnoPolitics". Weblogsky. Archived from the original on November 10, 2006. Retrieved September 11, 2012.
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  8. ↑ Steve Jackson Games, Inc. v. US Secret Service, vol. 36, October 31, 1994, p. 457, retrieved 2018-05-27
  9. ↑ "Bernstein v. US Department of Justice". Electronic Frontier Foundation. 2011-07-01. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Harris, Scott (2002). "Freedom Fighters of the Digital World". Los Angeles Times . Archived from the original on 17 January 2002. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  11. 1 2 Timberg, Craig (2013). "Try as it might, anti-surveillance group can't avoid Washington". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2013-10-12. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  12. ↑ McCullagh, Declan (2006-04-27). "EFF reaches out to D.C. with new office". CNET. Retrieved September 11, 2012.
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  14. ↑ Maass, Dave (2013-04-15). "The Eddy Street Era Begins". Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  15. ↑ "Shari Steele: A Legacy of Digital Rights". Electronic Frontier Foundation. 2015-04-02. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  16. ↑ "EFF DES Cracker Machine Brings Honesty to Crypto Debate". Electronic Frontier Foundation. July 17, 1998. Archived from the original on 2012-07-22. Retrieved September 11, 2012.
  17. ↑ "Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) About the Electronic Frontier Foundation's 'DES Cracker' Machine". Electronic Frontier Foundation. July 16, 1998. Archived from the original on 2012-09-18. Retrieved September 11, 2012.
  18. ↑ Electronic Frontier Foundation (1998). Cracking DES - Secrets of Encryption Research, Wiretap Politics & Chip Design. O'Reilly Media. ISBN   978-1-56592-520-5.
  19. ↑ Burr, William E. (2003). "Selecting the Advanced Encryption Standard" (PDF). IEEE Security & Privacy. 99 (2): 43–52. doi:10.1109/MSECP.2003.1193210.
  20. ↑ Sophia Cope, House Advances Email Privacy Act, Setting the Stage for Vital Privacy Reform, Electronic Frontier Foundation (April 27, 2016).
  21. ↑ "SLAPP: the background of Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation". 31 July 2018.
  22. ↑ Ruiz, David (2018-09-14). "EFF Helps Launch Anti-SLAPP Task Force 'Protect the Protest'". Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved 2021-03-02.
  23. ↑ "Hachette v. Internet Archive". Electronic Frontier Foundation. 2020-10-09. Retrieved 2024-11-25.
  24. ↑ "EFF & Heavyweight Legal Team Will Defend Internet Archive's Digital Library Against Publishers * TorrentFreak" . Retrieved 2024-11-25.
  25. ↑ "Hachette Book Group, Inc. v. Internet Archive, No. 23-1260 (2d Cir. 2024)". Justia Law. Retrieved 2024-11-25.
  26. ↑ Bangeman, Eric (2008-02-03). "EFF's patent busters take on broad multiplayer gaming patent". Ars Technica. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  27. ↑ Timothy B. Lee (2007-04-02). "Congress finally considers aggressive e-voting overhaul". Ars Technica. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  28. ↑ A Srinivasa Rao (2010-10-26). "EVMs can easily be tampered with". India Today. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  29. ↑ Catone, Joshua (2012-10-02). "How social media can safeguard your vote". Mashable. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  30. ↑ Halderman, J. Alex (November 23, 2016). "Want to Know if the Election was Hacked? Look at the Ballots". Medium.
  31. ↑ Williams, Jamie (February 13, 2017). "Not Okay: Professor Smeared After Advocating for Election Integrity". Electronic Frontier Foundation.
  32. ↑ Hatmaker, Taylor (2018-05-07). "Tech watchdogs call on Facebook and Google for transparency around censored content". Tech Crunch. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
  33. ↑ Haskins, Caroline (2018-11-15). "86 organizations demand Zuckerberg to improve takedown appeals". Vice. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
  34. ↑ Doctorow, Cory (2019-04-15). "EFF to Facebook: enforce your rules banning cops from creating sockpuppet accounts and be transparent when you catch cops doing it". BoingBoing. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
  35. ↑ Eggerton, John (2019-07-03). "Digital freedom groups caution UK on content regulation". Multichannel News. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
  36. ↑ Nelson, Sharon; Simek, John (2019-07-30). "Electronic Frontier Foundation takes on online speech moderation with TOSsed Out". Slaw Magazine . Retrieved 2019-11-22.
  37. ↑ Cohn, Cindy (2019-08-09). "When Limiting Online Speech to Curb Violence, We Should Be Careful". Wired. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
  38. ↑ Release, Press (2022-12-01). "International Coalition of Rights Groups Call on Internet Infrastructure Providers to Avoid Content Policing". Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved 2022-12-24.
  39. ↑ "Protect the Stack". Protect the Stack. Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved 2022-12-24.
  40. ↑ Gastbeitrag (2022-12-06). "Schutz des Technologie-Stacks: Infrastrukturunternehmen sollten Inhalte nicht zensieren". netzpolitik.org (in German). Retrieved 2022-12-24.
  41. ↑ York, Corynne McSherry and Jillian C. (2022-10-13). "The Internet Is Not Facebook: Why Infrastructure Providers Should Stay Out of Content Policing". Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved 2022-12-24.
  42. ↑ Foundation, Electronic Frontier (2022-12-20). "We Need to Talk About Infrastructure". Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved 2022-12-24.
  43. ↑ "EFF Pioneer Awards". EFF.org. Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved September 11, 2012.
  44. ↑ "Whistleblower Chelsea Manning, Techdirt Founder Mike Masnick, and Free Expression Defender Annie Game Named Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award Winners". Electronic Frontier Foundation. 16 August 2017. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
  45. ↑ "EFF Cooperative Computing Awards". Electronic Frontier Foundation. February 29, 2008. Retrieved September 11, 2012.
  46. ↑ Kahney, Leander (March 31, 1999). "Big Bucks for Big Numbers". Wired. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  47. ↑ Bishop, Katina (April 6, 2000). "Big Prime Nets Big Prize: EFF Gives $50,000 to Finder of Largest Known Prime Number". Electronic Frontier Foundation. Archived from the original on September 16, 2016. Retrieved September 11, 2012.
  48. ↑ Knoll, Landon (October 14, 2009). "Record 12-million-digit Prime Number Nets $100,000 Prize". Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved September 11, 2012.
  49. ↑ Strickland, Eliza (September 28, 2008). "Mathematicians May Win $100,000 Prize for Prime Number Discovery". Discover Magazine. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  50. ↑ "EFFector : A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation". Electronic Frontier Foundation. ISSN   1062-9424 . Retrieved October 9, 2013.
  51. ↑ Maass, Dave (December 16, 2015). "EFF Publishes "Pwning Tomorrow," a Speculative Fiction Anthology". Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved August 10, 2016.
  52. ↑ "Message from EFF San Francisco to Cryptoparty Melbourne". Electronic Frontier Foundation. Archived from the original on July 19, 2013. Retrieved July 17, 2013– via YouTube.
  53. ↑ "3rd Annual Anthem Awards Winners Announced". Anthem Awards. Retrieved 2024-05-07.
  54. 1 2 "Secure Messaging Scorecard". EFF. Archived from the original on 15 November 2016. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
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HTTPS Everywhere is a discontinued free and open-source browser extension for Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Brave, Vivaldi and Firefox for Android, which was developed collaboratively by The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). It automatically makes websites use a more secure HTTPS connection instead of HTTP, if they support it. The option "Encrypt All Sites Eligible" makes it possible to block and unblock all non-HTTPS browser connections with one click. Due to the widespread adoption of HTTPS on the World Wide Web, and the integration of HTTPS-only mode on major browsers, the extension was retired in January 2023.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Privacy Badger</span> Browser extension

Privacy Badger is a free and open-source browser extension for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Edge, Brave, Opera, and Firefox for Android created by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Its purpose is to promote a balanced approach to Internet privacy between consumers and content providers by blocking advertisements and tracking cookies that do not respect the Do Not Track setting in a user's web browser. A second purpose, served by free distribution, has been to encourage membership in and donation to the EFF.

The Email Privacy Act is a bill introduced in the United States Congress. The bipartisan proposed federal law was sponsored by Representative Kevin Yoder, a Republican from Kansas, and then-Representative Jared Polis, a Democrat of Colorado. The law is designed to update and reform existing online communications law, specifically the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) of 1986.

Library Freedom Project's stated mission, "is radically rethinking the library professional organization by creating a network of values-driven librarian-activists working together to build information democracy."

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kevin Bankston</span> American activist and attorney

Kevin Stuart Bankston is an American activist and attorney, who specialized in the areas of free speech and privacy law. He is currently Privacy Policy Director at Facebook, where he leads policy work on AI and emerging technologies. He was formerly the director of the Open Technology Institute (OTI) at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">EARN IT Act</span> Proposed US legislation

The EARN IT Act is a proposed legislation first introduced in 2020 in the United States Congress. It aims to amend Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934, which allows operators of websites to remove user-posted content that they deem inappropriate, and provides them with immunity from civil lawsuits related to such posting. Section 230 is the only surviving portion of the Communications Decency Act, passed in 1996.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Peter Eckersley (computer scientist)</span> Australian computer scientist (1978/1979–2022)

Peter Daniel Eckersley was an Australian computer scientist, computer security researcher and activist. From 2006 to 2018, he worked at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, including as chief computer scientist and head of AI policy. In 2018, he left the EFF to become director of research at the Partnership on AI, a position he held until 2020. In 2021, he co-founded the AI Objectives Institute.

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