Electronic Frontier Foundation

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an international non-profit digital rights advocacy and legal organization based in the United States. Its stated mission is to:
 * Engage in and support educational activities which increase popular understanding of the opportunities and challenges posed by developments in computing and telecommunications.
 * Develop among policy-makers a better understanding of the issues underlying free and open telecommunications, and support the creation of legal and structural approaches which will ease the assimilation of these new technologies by society.
 * Raise public awareness about civil liberties issues arising from the rapid advancement in the area of new computer-based communications media.
 * Support litigation in the public interest to preserve, protect, and extend First Amendment rights within the realm of computing and telecommunications technology.
 * Encourage and support the development of new tools which will endow non-technical users with full and easy access to computer-based telecommunications.