EFF accepts funding through cy pres awards, which is used to benefit the class by defending and advancing consumer rights related to information collected, retained, used, or disclosed. Cy pres funds contributed to EFF support the organization's public interest mission and directly benefit people's privacy and security, including maintaining widely used public education resources like Surveillance Self-Defense, developing freely available tools like Privacy Badger and Certbot, driving the adoption of strong privacy standards for technology developers, and developing legal and policy strategies to address improper and illegal data practices.