How I got to know about EFF?
Well, one of my friends told me about the ‘HTTPS Everywhere browser extension long ago when I asked him what that lock on the URL bar stood for. I was curious to know what it signifies when red or clean locked. Having installed it, I got suggestions for the ‘Privacy Badger’ extension, since both these extensions are tools by the EFF. I clicked on it and went on to read. This search soon landed me on the Electronic Frontier Foundation page!
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development. EFF's mission is to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world.
Mission : To ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world.
Activities :
This initiative by EFF challenges patents that the organization claims are illegitimate and suppress innovation or limits online expression.
The work of the foundation is currently focused on the following dimensions:
free speech : defending the Internet and its open architecture as a platform for free speech
fair use and intellectual property rights : defending the balance between fair use and intellectual property legislation (copyright, trademark, etc.), and ensure that the Internet and digital technologies continue to empower users as consumers, creators, innovators, scholars, and citizens;
Innovation : protecting innovators and promoting creativity and competition;
Privacy : promoting and defending the privacy rights of individuals in the digital environment, and supporting thde development of privacy-enhancing technologies;
international activities : defending privacy, freedom of expression, digital consumer rights, and innovation at a global level, through capacity building activities, campaigns against legislative proposals and Internet treaties and conventions that threaten to undermine human rights, and advocacy to convince companies and governments to uphold human rights standards and the rule of law; and
Transparency : demanding for and promoting transparency at a governmental level.
Some of the noticeable works by EFF can be found here.
~ Akshay Khoje
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