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EFF is a leading civil liberties organization focused on digital rights, privacy, and free expression. While not AI-safety-specific, EFF's work on surveillance, encryption, and tech policy intersects with AI governance and deployment concerns.

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1990 that defends civil liberties in the digital world through litigation, policy analysis, activism, and technology development. EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation. Its work on surveillance, encryption, and tech policy is relevant to AI governance and digital rights debates.

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  • EFF is the leading nonprofit defending civil liberties in the digital world, founded in 1990.
  • Works through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development.
  • Focuses on user privacy, free speech, security research, and freedom-enhancing technologies.
  • Advises policymakers and educates the public on digital rights issues.
  • Operates as a donor-funded 501(c)(3) nonprofit with a global network of members and partners.

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 The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development. EFF's mission is to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world. 

 EFF's mission is to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world. 

 Even in the fledgling days of the Internet, EFF understood that protecting access to technology was central to advancing freedom for all. In the years that followed, EFF used our fiercely independent voice to clear the way for open source software, encryption, security research, file sharing tools, and a world of emerging technologies.

 Today, EFF uses the unique expertise of leading technologists, activists, and attorneys in our efforts to defend free speech online, fight illegal surveillance, advocate for users and innovators, and support freedom-enhancing technologies.

 Together, we forged a vast network of concerned members and partner organizations 

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