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Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc
Key facts
- Abbreviation
- EFF
- Formation
- 1990 (36 years ago) ( 1990 )
- Founders
- Mitch Kapor John Gilmore John Perry Barlow
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Tax id no
- 04-3091431
- Purpose
- Digital rights
- Headquarters
- San Francisco , California, US
- Region served
- Worldwide
- Members
- 40,000
- Executive director
- Nicole Ozer (Effective June 1, 2026)
- Staff
- 125 (2025 )
- Website
- eff .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Electronic Frontier Foundation | Defending your rights in the digital world
Defending your rights in the digital world
eff.org →Link to the official site · 8,621 chars · not written by Vinony
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Encyclopedic overview
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an American international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 1990 to promote Internet civil liberties.
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Electronic Frontier Foundation” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.