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Bay Area Speaks: A People's Hearing on the Future of the Internet

When it comes to the Internet, Californians are pioneers. The Bay Area has been the most vocal in the national fight for Net Neutrality, and there's a reason: the open Internet is why so many trailblazing new artists, technologies and businesses were born in this state. On Nov. 20,...

EFF at the Global e-Sustainability Initiative General Assembly

EFF will be speaking on ICTs and human rights at this gathering of major Information and Communication Technology (ICT) companies and organisations around the globe. The Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) is a leading source of impartial information, resources and best practices for achieving integrated social and environmental sustainability through ICT.

Medical Privacy Bootcamp

EFF's Lee Tien, Adi Kamdar, and Rainey Reitman will be teaching a medical privacy bootcamp for California consumer advocates, lawyers, law students, and privacy advocates. This is a great opportunity to learn more about laws and policies surrounding medical privacy, and become engaged in the battle to defend medical data...

Current Issues in Cell Phone Surveillance

EFF Senior Staff Attorney Hanni Fakhoury will be discussing legal challenges to cell phone surveillance at the California Attorneys for Criminal Justice and California Public Defender's Association annual Capital Case Defense Seminar.

Oral Argument in Klayman v. Obama

EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn will argue before a DC court that Americans' telephone metadata deserves the highest protection of the Fourth Amendment. EFF is appearing as amicus in Klayman v. Obama, a case on appeal following a December 2013 preliminary ruling that the NSA's metadata program was likely...

Open Access Week reddit AMA

This Open Access Week, we'll be answering your questions about the making scholarship freely and openly available on reddit! We'll be doing an "AMA," an "Ask Me Anything," and we'll be joined by our friends at Creative Commons, the Right to Research Coalition, the Open Access Button, and by Jack...

Members-Only Speakeasy: Bay Area


Join the EFF staff for a drink on Thursday, October 30th at our biannual Speakeasy! What better way to celebrate "All Hallows Eve Eve" than with the organization fighting the real-life spooks and trolls? Raise a glass with us and learn about our latest efforts to protect...

EFF at the USENIX LISA Conference


UPDATE: Don't miss our Wednesday night Ask the EFF BOF! Join EFF Deputy General Counsel Kurt Opsahl for a candid Q&A about what we're doing at the intersection of tech and civil liberties.
Ask the EFF - Birds of a Feather Session Wednesday, November 12,...

Open Access Week

Open Access Week is an international event that celebrates the wide-ranging benefits of enabling open access to information and research–as well as the dangerous costs of keeping knowledge locked behind publisher paywalls.

From October 20 to 26, academics, researchers, and curious minds everywhere will be...

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