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- Pioneer Awards
Honoring leaders on the electronic frontier who are extending freedom and innovation in the realm of information technology. - Cooperative Computing Awards
Encouraging ordinary Internet users to collaborate to solve huge scientific problems.
Legal Cases
Whether defending your rights from attack or seeking front-line justice to establish your rights, EFF battles for digital freedom in the courts. Help us with this important work.
- Bauer v. GlatzerOn May 1, 2008, EFF and the law firm of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought against the operator of the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia.
- FOIA Litigation: Border Searches Asian Law Caucus v. Department of Homeland Security, Civil Action No. 08-842 (N.D. Cal. filed Feb. 7, 2008). EFF and the Asian Law Caucus have sued the Department of Homeland Security for denying access to records about the questioning and searches of travelers at U.S. borders.
- Internet Archive, et al v Mukasey et al, No. 07-6346-CW (N.D. Cal)In December 2007, the Internet Archive, along with its counsel the ACLU and EFF, filed a lawsuit challenging a national security letter issued to the Archive.
- NSA SpyingCases brought against corporations complicit in the NSA's warrantless surveillance of millions of Americans' private domestic communications.
Whitepapers
Our whitepapers reflect the results of EFF's clear thinking on issues at the cutting-edge of law and technology.
- 2008 A Better Way Forward: Voluntary Collective Licensing of Music File Sharing
- 2007 Packet Forgery By ISPs: A Report on the Comcast Affair
- 2007 Detecting packet injection: a guide to observing packet spoofing by ISPs
- 2006 Six Tips to Protect Your Search Privacy
