The
Electronic Frontier Foundation (
EFF) was founded in July
1990 by
Mitch Kapor,
John Gilmore and
John Perry Barlow. It is a membership organization supported by donations and is based in
San Francisco. Its main goal is to
"... educate the press, policymakers and the general public about civil liberties issues related to technology; and to act as a defender of those liberties."
The creation of the organisation was motivated by the raid on Steve Jackson Games by the United States Secret Service. Its second big case was Dan Bernstein vs the United States Department of Justice over the publication of an encryption program. Recently the organization has been involved in defending Jon Johansen and Dmitry Sklyarov.
- "About EFF", from EFF website as of March 7, 2003; [1] (http://www.eff.org/abouteff.html)