EFF

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Type: Non-Profit
Industry: Internet
Founded: USA, 1990
Founder(s): John Perry Barlow, Mitch Kapor, John Gilmore
Headquarters: Electronic Frontier Foundation
454 Shotwell Street
San Francisco CA 94110-1914
Country: USA
Email: information [at] eff.org
Website: eff.org
Facebook: EFF
Key People
Kevin Bankston, Senior Staff Attorney

Kellie Brownell, Development Associate
Andrea Chiang, Accounting Manager
Cindy Cohn, Legal Director
Peter Eckersley, Senior Staff Technologist

EFF( Electronic Frontier Foundation) is a donor-funded non-profit organization which confronts cutting-edge issues defending free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights today. EFF blends the expertise of lawyers, policy analysts, activists, and technologists to achieve significant victories on behalf of consumers and the general public.[1]

EFF focuses on issues relating to free speech, innovation, intellectual property, international, privacy and transparency.

EFF is an accredited observer at WIPO[2] and a participant of the Global Network Initiative[3].

EFF has it's head office in San Fransisco, California and has staff members in Washington D.C too.

History

Board of Directors

Projects

  • Bloggers' Rights
  • Coders' Rights
  • FOIA Project
  • Patent Busting
  • Surveillance Self-Defense
  • Teaching Copyright
  • Takedown Hall of Shame
  • TOSBack