Nobody should need a credential of their personhood, EFF’s Jacob Hoffman-Andrews told CNET. “Your personhood is an innate feature of your being. It can't be granted to you by anyone else."
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Law Practice
San Francisco, CA 26,560 followers
Ensuring that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world.
About us
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the leading organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. For decades EFF has worked tirelessly in the courts and with activists to protect the freedom to hack, tinker, remix, and create for the long term good of society. EFF defends free speech on the Internet, fights illegal surveillance, supports freedom-enhancing technologies, and much more. The EFF team consists of a unique blend of activists, technologists, and attorneys that work to ensure that the rights and freedoms we enjoy are enhanced, rather than eroded, as our use of technology grows. Join EFF's movement to protect digital freedom today at eff.org/join. Stay up to date on our latest work: eff.org/EFFector facebook.com/eff google.com/+eff instagram.com/efforg twitch.tv/efflive/ twitter.com/eff mastodon.social/@eff youtube.com/efforg
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https://www.eff.org
External link for Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
- Industry
- Law Practice
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CA
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1990
- Specialties
- Free Speech, Privacy, Innovation, Fair Use, Transparency, Security, Technology, Copyright, Online Tracking, Section 230, Hacking, DMCA, Patents, Activism, and Software Development
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815 Eddy Street
San Francisco, CA 94109, US
Employees at Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
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Brian Behlendorf
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Anil Dash
Anil Dash is an Influencer Trying to make the internet better by making it more inclusive, more equitable, and fun.
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Dave Farber
Distinguished Professor at Keio University
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Brad Templeton
Speaker/Consultant on Robocars and Exponential Technology [email protected]
Updates
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Happy Labor Day! In this piece from 2020, our staff investigates bossware– tech that bosses use to surveil and control their workers, and how to protect yourself.
Inside the Invasive, Secretive “Bossware” Tracking Workers
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The arrest of Telegram’s CEO, Pavel Durov, marks an enormous escalation by a state’s authorities. We are monitoring the situation closely and will continue to do so.
The French Detention: Why We're Watching the Telegram Situation Closely
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Registration is open for the EFF Awards! Join us on September 12 in San Francisco to celebrate those leading the fight for freedom online. Everyone interested in digital rights is welcome to join! You can even get discounted tickets for EFF members and students. Register today to celebrate this year's honorees, meet digital freedom leaders, and enjoy a variety of drinks and appetizers!
EFF Awards 2024
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Pavel Durov can’t be held legally responsible for what happens in Telegram users’ E2EE direct chats, EFF’s Eva Galperin told DW News. And arresting a CEO for content moderation practices could threaten millions of users’ free speech and privacy rights.
What makes Telegram attractive for illegal activities? | DW News
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We are so excited to welcome Svea Windwehr back to EFF to work on digital policy in the EU!
Tl;dr: Saying farewell to GFF, will be joining EFF. It’s been quite the ride, and I am so very thankful for everything we got done together. Building the Center for User Rights at Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte e.V. over the past months has been a lot of fun and one of the most fulfilling projects I have ever worked on. Its mission is as simple as it is relevant: Laws like the Digital Services Act are only as good as their enforcement. And to tip the scales towards more fair and equitable online spaces, a lot more enforcement work that champions fundamental rights needs to happen. From the get-go, the team behind the Center has been not only incredibly dedicated, but also wildly successful: 🔹 We helped shape the German law transposing the DSA, making sure that the national oversight authority is a strong and competent one, that users can lodge complaints easily, and that the Federal Policy Office needs to be transparent about use data disclosed by platforms in case of suspicions about illegal activity https://lnkd.in/eWYvSHfz 🔹 Together with our partners European Digital Rights, Global Witness and Bits of Freedom, we filed a complaint against LinkedIn’s non-compliant targeting of online ads based on people’s sensitive personal data - and won! https://lnkd.in/exQ3Uxt5 🔹 We have been advocating for a swift implementation of the data access rules in the DSA, to finally allow researchers to access the information they need to answer some of the most relevant questions about online platforms’ impact on elections, disinformation and other systemic risks. https://lnkd.in/eparwSWe and https://lnkd.in/e_27iY3v 🔹 Next, we went after five online platforms – Meta, YouTube, TikTok, X, and LinkedIn – for not complying with the DSA’s requirement to allow organizations like GFF to represent users in internal complaints to make sure that users get the help they need to hold platforms to account. https://lnkd.in/ebqQVYHR …and there are many more exciting projects in the pipeline. I will be leaving GFF at the end of this month, a choice that has not been easy to make. But knowing that my brilliant colleague Jürgen Bering will take over from me as head of the Center for User Rights helps a lot. I can’t wait to see what he, Dr. Simone Ruf, Benjamin Lück, Joschka Selinger, Davy Wang, LL.M. (UConn) and Julius Schwenkenberg will accomplish in the future. As for my next steps, I am excited to move (back) to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in September, where I will be working on EU digital policy. In many ways, this feels like going back to some of my roots, and I can’t wait to dive back in.
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No one should have to worry about warrantless police drones spying on their backyard sunbathing.
Backyard Privacy in the Age of Drones
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Adri Perez and Cynthia Conti-Cook join EFF's Daly Barnett, Hayley Tsukayama, and Jennifer Pinsof in our upcoming livestream "Reproductive Justice in the Digital Age." Watch live on August 28! https://lnkd.in/gqyfCTgn
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A big data breach could supercharge election-year scams. If you want to contribute to a campaign, "look up the campaign’s official website and donate through that instead of clicking the link in their SMS inbox,” EFF’s Bill Budington told Vox.
The massive Social Security number breach is actually a good thing
vox.com
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A federal appellate court rules that California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code violates the First Amendment, a victory for free speech and privacy.
Court to California: Try a Privacy Law, Not Online Censorship
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