Electronic Frontier Foundation

Electronic Frontier Foundation
AbbreviationEFF
Formation1990 (1990)
Founders
TypeNonprofit
Tax ID no.04-3091431
HeadquartersSan Francisco, California, US
Region served
Worldwide
Members40,000
Executive director
Nicole Ozer
Revenue26.1 million (2025)
Expenses27.1 million (2025)
Endowment22.5 million (2025)
Staff125 (2025)
Volunteers332 (2025)
Websiteeff.org Edit this at Wikidata
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an American international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 1990 to promote Internet civil liberties.

It provides funds for legal defense in court, presents amicus curiae briefs, defends individuals and new technologies from what it considers abusive legal threats, works to expose government malfeasance, provides guidance to the government and courts, organizes political action and mass mailings, supports some new technologies which it believes preserve personal freedoms and online civil liberties, maintains a database and web sites of related news and information, monitors and challenges potential legislation that it believes would infringe on personal liberties and fair use, and solicits a list of what it considers are abusive patents with intentions to defeat those that it considers are without merit.