{"type": "project", "title": "Electronic Frontier Foundation", "logoImg": "bafkreicnljmaur4op2irvuflb3utpt62qivsjumfy3mm6nky6wrankruna", "website": "https://eff.org", "bannerImg": "bafkreie5wkhybbs5oomyaq4aufqcoeo76lbv3jhokmy4tcb3pzdfpvxa7q", "createdAt": 1673554483626, "credentials": {}, "description": "For over 30 years, EFF has been the leading nonprofit advocate for the privacy and free speech rights of technology creators and ordinary users. Our team achieves success through impact litigation, policy analysis and education, grassroots activism, technology development, and support from the public. EFF's mission is to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world.\n\nCOMMUNITY ADVOCACY\n\nFrom the early days of the web, EFF understood that we must protect access to technology in order to advance freedom for all. In the years that followed, EFF used its fiercely independent voice to clear the way for open source software, encryption, security research, file sharing tools, and a world of emerging technologies. EFF\u2019s work in the growing movement for web decentralization and the public interest internet is no different.\n\nIn order to combat the ever-consolidating power of corporate giants (and end the gatekeeping, surveillance, and censorship that often accompany them), many have looked toward blockchain-based technology and cryptocurrency for remedies. EFF is optimistic about the ability of digital currency to support independent community projects, route around financial censorship, and support independent journalists around the world.\n\nWhile there are still many problems to solve in the blockchain ecosystem, the world needs thoughtful, user-focused advocates like EFF to help uncover the opportunities for public good. This is why EFF fought a poorly-defined cryptocurrency provision in the Biden Administration\u2019s infrastructure bill that could create onerous requirements affecting user privacy, and EFF also introduced bright-line rules that Congress should adopt when developing cryptocurrency regulations; we\u2019ve written extensively about the ways financial intermediaries censor legal speech; we submitted comments to FinCEN opposing the agency\u2019s proposal for new privacy-invasive regulations of cryptocurrency transactions; and we\u2019ve called for blockchain intermediaries to issue transparency reports and protect the rights of their users. During the Tornado Cash controversy, EFF spoke out for the speech protections on software code and represented Johns Hopkins Professor Matthew Green, who made a fork of the code and posted the replica so it would be available for study. EFF also reached out to The U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to seek more clarity on their interpretation of the sanctions listing. \n\nOPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PROJECTS\n\nWhile EFF is proud to be a leading voice in online rights debates, we also develop gratis and open source tools to enhance everyone\u2019s freedom online. Your donations provide critical  support for EFF\u2019s wide-ranging work, which includes projects such as:\n\n- Atlas of Surveillance: This project launched in collaboration with hundreds of EFF members and university students. With over 10,000 data points and counting, the Atlas is the largest searchable database of U.S. law enforcement\u2019s surveillance technologies.\n\n- Certbot: This software tool allows you to automatically deploy Let's Encrypt certificates to enable HTTPS on your website. EFF even helped develop Let\u2019s Encrypt which has in turn enabled free and easy encryption across the web!\n\n- Cover Your Tracks: This successor to EFF\u2019s Panopticlick demonstrates how well your browser and add-ons protect you from tracking and fingerprinting.\n\n- HTTPS Everywhere: This tool automatically connects users to the encrypted version of many major sites. Just over a decade after its launch, EFF declared success and announced the planned deprecation of our HTTPS Everywhere plugin because the functionality had been incorporated into all of the major web browsers, making it unnecessary.\n\n- Privacy Badger: With millions of active installs, this browser add-on was the first to specifically focus on blocking tracking in advertisements, instead of just the ads themselves. EFF\u2019s open-source technology has also inspired other widely used privacy tools, including the Brave browser and Safari\u2019s tracker blocking.\n\nThe world relies on the internet to stay connected and informed more than ever before, and that gives you a pivotal opportunity to stand up for technology users everywhere. Your support for EFF ensures that we always have a vocal advocate wherever tech and civil liberties meet.", "logoImgData": {}, "bannerImgData": {}, "projectTwitter": "eff"}
Electronic Frontier Foundation
For over 30 years, EFF has been the leading nonprofit advocate for the privacy and free speech rights of technology creators and ordinary users. Our team achieves success through impact litigation, policy analysis and education, grassroots activism, technology development, and support from the public. EFF's mission is to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world.

COMMUNITY ADVOCACY

From the early days of the web, EFF understood that we must protect access to technology in order to advance freedom for all. In the years that followed, EFF used its fiercely independent voice to clear the way for open source software, encryption, security research, file sharing tools, and a world of emerging technologies. EFF’s work in the growing movement for web decentralization and the public interest internet is no different.

In order to combat the ever-consolidating power of corporate giants (and end the gatekeeping, surveillance, and censorship that often accompany them), many have looked toward blockchain-based technology and cryptocurrency for remedies. EFF is optimistic about the ability of digital currency to support independent community projects, route around financial censorship, and support independent journalists around the world.

While there are still many problems to solve in the blockchain ecosystem, the world needs thoughtful, user-focused advocates like EFF to help uncover the opportunities for public good. This is why EFF fought a poorly-defined cryptocurrency provision in the Biden Administration’s infrastructure bill that could create onerous requirements affecting user privacy, and EFF also introduced bright-line rules that Congress should adopt when developing cryptocurrency regulations; we’ve written extensively about the ways financial intermediaries censor legal speech; we submitted comments to FinCEN opposing the agency’s proposal for new privacy-invasive regulations of cryptocurrency transactions; and we’ve called for blockchain intermediaries to issue transparency reports and protect the rights of their users. During the Tornado Cash controversy, EFF spoke out for the speech protections on software code and represented Johns Hopkins Professor Matthew Green, who made a fork of the code and posted the replica so it would be available for study. EFF also reached out to The U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to seek more clarity on their interpretation of the sanctions listing. 

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PROJECTS

While EFF is proud to be a leading voice in online rights debates, we also develop gratis and open source tools to enhance everyone’s freedom online. Your donations provide critical  support for EFF’s wide-ranging work, which includes projects such as:

- Atlas of Surveillance: This project launched in collaboration with hundreds of EFF members and university students. With over 10,000 data points and counting, the Atlas is the largest searchable database of U.S. law enforcement’s surveillance technologies.

- Certbot: This software tool allows you to automatically deploy Let's Encrypt certificates to enable HTTPS on your website. EFF even helped develop Let’s Encrypt which has in turn enabled free and easy encryption across the web!

- Cover Your Tracks: This successor to EFF’s Panopticlick demonstrates how well your browser and add-ons protect you from tracking and fingerprinting.

- HTTPS Everywhere: This tool automatically connects users to the encrypted version of many major sites. Just over a decade after its launch, EFF declared success and announced the planned deprecation of our HTTPS Everywhere plugin because the functionality had been incorporated into all of the major web browsers, making it unnecessary.

- Privacy Badger: With millions of active installs, this browser add-on was the first to specifically focus on blocking tracking in advertisements, instead of just the ads themselves. EFF’s open-source technology has also inspired other widely used privacy tools, including the Brave browser and Safari’s tracker blocking.

The world relies on the internet to stay connected and informed more than ever before, and that gives you a pivotal opportunity to stand up for technology users everywhere. Your support for EFF ensures that we always have a vocal advocate wherever tech and civil liberties meet.
Electronic Frontier Foundation