EFF

EFF: Electronic Frontier Foundation – The Digital Rights Organization

EFF is a digital rights organization and is fighting for users since its foundation.

In the recent era, there are many powerful entities forcing the shutdown of online speech, preventing new innovation from reaching the customers, and facilitating government surveillance.

To all these pressures, the EFF is standing strong and consistent challenging the corporate overreach as well as the government abuses of power.

EFF also provide technological assistance to individuals which can help them to increase protection against the privacy and security threats. The EFF technologists build and release these facilities for the public which is free to use by anyone around the world.

Moreover, EFF remains engaged in major legislative fights, beating back digital censorship bills disguised as intellectual property proposals, resisting attempts to compel companies to spy on users, championing reform bills that rein in government surveillance, and much more.

History

EFF was founded in the year 1990 as a result of a case which threats the basic right to speech. The organization was founded by John Gilmore, John Perry Barlow, and Mitch Kapor.

EFF was formed in a response to a series of actions by law enforcement agencies which drive the founders of EFF to think that the authorities are uninformed about the emerging forms of online communication. Therefore, they concluded that there is a need for increased protection for internet civil liberties.

You can read a detailed EFF founding story here.

EFF’s Proceedings/Issues

With the fast pace of improving technology, the threats and risks to the privacy and security are also increasing. To aware and to eradicate the issues confronting individual’s freedom, the continuous efforts are witnessed from the side of EFF.

There are six sub-categories in which the EFF has divided the online related issues – Privacy, Free Speech, Creativity and Innovation, Transparency, International, and Security.

However, we will skim through the issues highlighted by EFF in the areas of internet privacy and security.

EFF’s Awards

There are two sets of awards offered by the EFF which is purposed to promote their work in accordance with its goals and objectives;

EFF Pioneer Awards

This award is organized every year to applause the individuals who work to strengthen the individuals in using a computer and have significant contributions in this regard. In EFF’s opinion, it is given to “leaders who are extending freedom and innovation on the electronic frontier.”

EFF Cooperative Computing Awards

These awards are divided into a series of four awards which are purposed to “encourage the ordinary internet users to contribute to solving huge scientific problems.” These awards will be given to the first individual or group who discovers a prime number with a significant record number of decimal digits.

This award category is funded by an unknown donor. The four categories are;

  1. The first individual or group finding a prime number with at least 1,000,000 decimal digits will be awarded “$50,000”. It was awarded on April 6, 2000.
  2. The first individual or group finding a prime number with at least 10,000,000 decimal digits will be awarded “$100,000”. It was awarded on October 14, 2009.
  3. The first individual or group finding a prime number with at least 100,000,000 decimal digits will be awarded “$150,000”.
  4. The first individual or group finding a prime number with at least 1,000,000,000 decimal digits will be awarded “$250,000”.

More Deep links:

  1. EFF Victories and Achievements 
  2. EFF Privacy Issues Timeline
  3. EFF Security Issues Timeline
  4. EFF Privacy Tools

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