The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an international
non-profit advocacy and legal
organization based in the
United States with the stated purpose of being dedicated to preserving free speech rights such as those protected by the
First Amendment to the United States Constitution in the context of today's
digital age. Its stated main goal is to educate the press, policymakers and the general public about
civil liberties issues related to technology; and to act as a defender of those liberties. The EFF is supported by donations and is based in
San Francisco,
California, with staff members in
Toronto,
Ontario and
Washington, D.C. and
Brussels, the seat of the
European Union. They are also accredited observers at the
World Intellectual Property Organization. EFF has taken action in several ways; it provides or funds legal defense in court, defends individuals and new technologies from the
chilling effects of what it considers baseless or misdirected legal threats, provides guidance to the government and courts, organizes political action and mass mailings, supports some new technologies which it believes preserve personal
freedoms, 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
patent abuses with intentions to defeat those that it considers without merit.
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body> (EFF) A group established to address social and legal issues arising from the impact on society of the increasingly pervasive use of computers as a means of communication and information distribution. EFF is a non-profit civil liberties public interest organisation working to protect freedom of expression, privacy, and access to on-line resources and information.
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