Electronic Frontier Foundation
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California. The foundation was formed on 10 July 1990 by John Gilmore, John Perry Barlow and Mitch Kapor to promote Internet civil liberties.
Founded | July 10, 1990; 33 years ago (1990-07-10) |
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Founders | |
Type | 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization |
04-3091431 | |
Purpose | Digital rights, Internet activism, lobbying, and litigation |
Location |
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Coordinates | 37°46′57″N 122°25′18″W |
Area served | International |
Chairman | Brian Behlendorf[2] |
Cindy Cohn[3] | |
Revenue (2020) | $12.2 million[4] |
Employees | 79[5] |
Website | www |
The EFF 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.