Electronic Frontier Foundation
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading US nonprofit defending civil liberties in the digital world, founded in 1990. It combines impact litigation, activism, and technology projects (Certbot, Privacy Badger) to fight for free expression, privacy, encryption, and against mass surveillance and overbroad copyright/law-enforcement power. As of 2026 it remains member-funded (over 70% of funding from individuals) and publishes daily analysis on its Deeplinks blog.
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When you go online, your rights should go with you. X is no longer where the fight is happening. EFF takes on big fights, and we win by putting our time, skills, and members’ support where they will have the most impact. Right now, that means Bluesky, Mastodon, LinkedIn,
6mo ago · 1,421 likes
The EU is once again trying to push a dangerous legislative proposal that undermines encrypted communication and obliterates our rights to private conversations. https://t.co/EubPgx8ywq
1y ago · 936 likes
Age verification via face scans is not safety — it's surveillance. Biometric age guessing is inaccurate, discriminatory, and creepy AF. Stop normalizing it. https://t.co/sNYDznQusG
1y ago · 1,126 likes
No one, no matter their age, should have to hand over their passport or driver’s license just to access legal information and speak freely. https://t.co/DeJmS51dRB
1y ago · 762 likes
The strongest case
Digital rights need an institutional defender with real legal muscle: EFF argues that constitutional protections for speech, privacy, and due process must extend to code, networks, and data, and it has repeatedly forced courts and companies to confront mass surveillance, encryption bans, and overbroad IP enforcement.
And against
Critics say EFF's near-absolutist positions (strong-encryption maximalism, broad Section 230 defense, skepticism of content moderation and copyright enforcement) can underweight real harms such as child exploitation, harassment, and disinformation, and that it sometimes lands on the same side as the tech giants whose worst conduct it also fights.
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On the record
As a litigant/counsel, EFF has been a party in landmark cases including Bernstein v. United States, which established that software source code is protected speech, and Jewel v. NSA (filed 2008), its challenge to NSA mass surveillance, dismissed by the district court and affirmed by the Ninth Circuit in 2021 with Supreme Court review denied in 2022. These are EFF's own advocacy cases, not findings of wrongdoing against it. [source]