Electronic Frontier Foundation
Description
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a nonprofit organization, founded in 1990, that defends civil liberties in the digital world. It works through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism and the development of privacy and security tools. They include Privacy Badger, Certbot and Surveillance Self-Defense guides.
Its issue areas include free speech, privacy, creativity and innovation, transparency, security and artificial intelligence. It champions user privacy, free expression and innovation so that technology supports freedom and justice for all people. EFF advises policymakers and educates the press and the public through analysis, guides and workshops. It mobilizes hundreds of thousands of supporters through its Action Center.
It brings and joins legal cases, including suing US government agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for public records. It also files amicus briefs, including to the US Supreme Court, on issues such as corporate accountability for facilitating human rights abuses abroad and geofence warrants. It publishes reports on topics such as mobile advertising software and location data sharing, and police surveillance technology.
EFF is based in San Francisco and is donor funded as a US 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, relying on member support to continue its work defending users worldwide.
Latest news
EFF legal intern Simar Kaur also contributed to this article. Americans’ First Amendment right to equal access to official government statements is violated by the Trump administration’s use of Truth Social’s preferential treatment scheme, which blocks people who won’t pay Trump’s company up to...
25 Sep 2026
DraftKings Is Using AI to Supercharge the Harms of Online Behavioral Advertising
Online sports betting company DraftKings is using AI to target customers who are most likely to place losing bets and respond to gambling promotions. This kind of targeting is a form of online behavioral advertising , which is when companies personalize the ads they show you based on the data...
24 Sep 2026
EU Kids Act Won't Keep the Internet Accountable and Trustworthy
The EU Commission draft law to restrict young people’s access to the internet that it presented last week will come at a high cost: it will put online services behind age gates, expand the use of intrusive age verification, and undermine the privacy of all users. The EU Kids Act aims to protect...
21 Sep 2026
D.C. Circuit Must Vacate a Drone Flight Restriction That Criminalized Recording Immigration Agents
EFF joined an amicus brief with ACLU, ACLU of D.C., National Press Photographers Association, and Professional Photographers of America to urge the D.C. Circuit to vacate an FAA drone flight restriction that violated the First Amendment right to record law enforcement . This is an important...
21 Sep 2026
How to Limit What Apple’s New Siri AI Can Access in iOS 27
Apple’s new operating system is here, and along with it comes a new version of Siri, dubbed with two very familiar letters: AI. As the name suggests, this Siri power-up resembles an AI chatbot more than the often derided voice assistant you might be used to. It has even evolved from a blob you...
18 Sep 2026
EFF Statement on California Governor's Executive Order on AI
California Gov. Gavin Newsom's executive order is an opportunity for a needed, thoughtful conversation about artificial intelligence and its potential harms. Everyday Californians are feeling real anxiety about the risks of artificial intelligence, and as an organization that works to ensure...
18 Sep 2026
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