In the early years of the internet, website administrators had to face off with a burdensome and expensive process to deploy SSL certificates. But today, hundreds of thousands of people have used EFF’s free Certbot tool to spread that sweet HTTPS across the web. Now almost all internet traffic is encrypted, and everyone gets a basic level of security. Small actions mean big change when we act together. Will you support important work like this and give EFF a Year-End Challenge boost?

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Make a donation of ANY SIZE by December 31 and you’ll help us unlock bonus grants! Every supporter gets us closer to a series of seven Year-End Challenge milestones set by EFF’s board of directors. These grants become larger as the number of online rights supporters grows. Everyone counts! See our progress.

🚧 Digital Rights: Under Construction 🚧

Since 1990, EFF has defended your digital privacy and free speech rights in the courts, through activism, and by making open source privacy tools. This team is committed to watching out for the users no matter what directions technological innovation may take us. And that’s funded entirely by donations.

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With help from people like you, EFF has been able to help unravel legal and ethical questions surrounding the rise of AI; push the USPTO to withdraw harmful patent proposals; fight for the public's right to access police drone footage; and show why banning TikTok and passing laws like the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) will not achieve internet safety.

As technology’s reach continues to expand, so do everyone’s concerns about harmful side effects. That’s where EFF’s ample experience in tech policy, the law, and human rights shines. You can help us.

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EFF is a member-supported U.S. 501(c)(3) organization. We’re celebrating ELEVEN YEARS of top ratings from the nonprofit watchdog Charity Navigator! Your donation is tax-deductible as allowed by law.

It’s Power Up Your Donation Week! Right now, your contribution to the Electronic Frontier Foundation will go twice as far to protect digital privacy, security, and free speech rights for everyone. Will you donate today to get a free 2X match?

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Thanks to a fund made by a group of dedicated supporters, your donation online gets an automatic match up to $307,200 through December 10! This means every dollar you give equals two dollars to fight surveillance, oppose censorship, defend encryption, promote open access to information, and much more. EFF makes every cent count.

Lights, Laptops, Action!

Who has time to decode tech policy, understand the law, then figure out how to change things for the users? EFF does. The purpose of every attorney, activist, and technologist at EFF is to watch your back and make technology better. But you are the superstar who makes it possible with your support.

'Fix Copyright' member shirt inspired by Steamboat Willie entering the public domain.

With the help of people like you, EFF has been able to help unravel legal and ethical questions surrounding the rise of AI; keep policymakers on the road to net neutrality; encourage the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to rule that location-based geofence warrants are unconstitutional; and explain why banning TikTok and passing laws like the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) will not achieve internet safety.

The world struggles to get tech right, but EFF’s experts advocate for you every day of the year. Take action by renewing your EFF membership! You can set the stage for civil liberties and human rights online for everyone. Please give today and let your donation go twice as far for digital rights!

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Strengthen the community when you help us spread the word about Power Up Your Donation Week! Here’s some sample language that you can share:

Each of us has the power to help in the movement for internet freedom. Our future depends on forging a web where we can have private conversations and explore the world online with confidence, so I thank you for your moral support and hope to have you on EFF's side as a member, too.

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EFF is a member-supported U.S. 501(c)(3) organization. We’re celebrating ELEVEN YEARS of top ratings from the nonprofit watchdog Charity Navigator! Your donation is tax-deductible as allowed by law.

People work at EFF because they believe in wringing justice from a world that’s often unfair. For us, setting things right means legal work, activism, convincing policymakers, and creating tech tools to tip the balance of power back toward you. Will you move that mission forward by supporting EFF?

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Support Digital Creators and Tech Users

This week, many EFFers will head to the Las Vegas hacker conferences—BSidesLV, Black Hat USA, and DEF CON—to rally behind researchers and tinkerers. EFF gives legal advice to folks like them all year because computer security has always relied on skilled hackers, and your privacy and free expression rely on strong web security. Check our conference Deeplinks post to get a full rundown of EFF's presentations and activities in Las Vegas.

For Justice

EFF's member t-shirt design for this year's DEF CON is inspired by the 11th card of the tarot: Justice. It can be challenging, and it can be slow. But that comes with the territory when your goal is truth and integrity. Your choices have meaningful consequences, so I hope you will support a better future for your privacy and free expression today.

Support EFF’s work at the Gold membership level and (for a short time!) you can choose EFF’s DEF CON 32 t-shirt design with some dazzling glow-in-the-dark details. The path to Justice will lead you to this year’s puzzle challenge, too! Donate today or even set up an easy automatic monthly donation. Help EFF spread the word about this “Virtual Vegas” membership week! Here’s some language you can use to share with friends:

EFF takes tough stances and tackles complicated problems for tech creators and users like you because it’s the right thing to do. Please help fight for everyone’s freedom online by joining EFF.

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EFF is a member-supported U.S. 501(c)(3) organization celebrating TEN YEARS of top ratings from the nonprofit watchdog Charity Navigator! Your donation is tax-deductible as allowed by law.

Craig Newmark Philanthropies will match up to $30,000 for your entire first year as a new monthly or annual EFF Sustaining Donor! Many thanks to Craig Newmark—founder of craigslist and a persistent supporter of digital freedom— for making this possible. This generous matching challenge bolsters celebrations for EFF's 34th anniversary on July 10 as well as EFF's ongoing summer membership drive: be a member for as little as $20 and get rare gifts featuring The Encryptids (including a Bigfoot enamel pin!).

Since its founding in 1990, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has relied on member support to power its public interest legal work, advocacy, and technology development. To wit, more than half of EFF's funding comes from small dollar donors around the world, and EFF's community of monthly and annual Sustaining Donors play a crucial role in keeping the organization running strong. Sustaining Donors giving $10 or less each month raised over $400,000 for EFF last year. Every member and every cent counts. This free donation matching offer from Craig Newmark Philanthropies takes EFF supporters' donations even further at a time when many households are especially conscious of their finances.

Sustaining Donors giving $10 or less each month raised over $400,000 for EFF last year. Every member and every cent counts.

Over the past several years, grants from Craig Newmark Philanthropies have focused on supporting trustworthy journalism to defend our democracy and hold the powerful accountable, as well as cybersecurity to protect consumers and journalists alike from malware and other dangers online. With over 30 years of donor support from Newmark, EFF built networks to help defend against disinformation warfare, fought online harassment, strengthened ethical journalism, and researched state-sponsored malware, cyber-mercenaries, and consumer spyware. EFF’s Threat Lab conducts research on surveillance technologies used to target journalists, communities, activists, and individuals. For example, EFF helped co-found, and continues to provide leadership to the Coalition Against Stalkerware. EFF also created and updated tools to educate and train working and student journalists alike to keep themselves safe from adversarial attacks. In addition to maintaining our popular Surveillance Self Defense guide, EFF scaled up the Report Back tool for student journalists, cybersecurity students, and grassroots volunteers to collaboratively study technology in society.

'Fix Copyright' member t-shirts. Creativity is fun for the whole family.

With this generous matching challenge from Craig Newmark Philanthropies, we are pleased to double the impact of our recurring Sustaining Donors and let all digital rights supporters know that we're in this together. EFF is deeply grateful to its passionate members and everyone who values a brighter future for privacy, security, and free expression.

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Did you know Disney’s Steamboat Willie entered the public domain this year? Since its 1928 debut, U.S. Congress has made multiple changes to copyright law, extending Disney’s ownership of this cultural icon for almost a century. A century.

Creativity should spark more creativity.

That’s not how intellectual property laws are supposed to work. In the United States, these laws were designed to give creators a financial incentive to contribute to science and culture. Then eventually the law makes this expression free for everyone to enjoy and build upon. Disney itself has reaped the abundant benefits of works in the public domain including Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid" and "The Snow Queen." Creativity should spark more creativity.

In that spirit, EFF presents to you this year’s EFF member t-shirt simply called “Fix Copyright":

Copyright Creativity is fun for the whole family.

The design references Steamboat Willie, but also tractor owners’ ongoing battle to repair their equipment despite threats from manufacturers like John Deere. These legal maneuvers are based on Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act or DMCA. In a recent appeals court brief, EFF and co-counsel Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati argued that Section 1201 chills free expression, impedes scientific research, and to top it off, is unenforceable because it’s too broad and violates the First Amendment. Ownership ain’t what it used to be, so let’s make it better.

We need you! Get behind this mission and support EFF's work as a member. Through EFF's 34th anniversary on July 10:

• Be an EFF member for as little as $20!
• New recurring monthly or annual donations get an automatic match thanks to a $30,000 challenge grant from Craig Newmark Philanthropies.
• Get 2 rare gifts featuring our friends, The Encryptids (get in step with Bigfoot over here).

You can help cut through the BS and make the world a little brighter—whether online or off.

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EFF is a member-supported U.S. 501(c)(3) organization celebrating TEN YEARS of top ratings from the nonprofit watchdog Charity Navigator! Your donation is tax-deductible as allowed by law.

It’s Day One of EFF’s summer membership drive for internet freedom! Gather round the virtual campfire because I’ve got special treats and a story for you:

1. New member t-shirts and limited-edition gear drop TODAY.
   
   
2. Through EFF's 34th birthday on July 10, you can get 2 rare gifts and become an EFF member for just $20! AND new automatic monthly or annual donors get an instant match.
   
   
3. I’m proud to share the first post in a series from our friends, The Encryptids—the rarely-seen enigmas who inspire campfire lore. But this time, they’re spilling secrets about how they survive this ever-digital world. We begin by checking in with the legendary Bigfoot de la Sasquatch...

-Aaron
EFF Membership Team

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eople say I'm the most famous of The Encryptids, but sometimes I don't want the spotlight. They all want a piece of me: exes, ad trackers, scammers, even the government. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but my digital profile is worth cash (to skeezy data brokers). I can’t hit a city block without being captured by doorbell cameras, CCTV, license plate readers, and a maze of street-level surveillance. It can make you want to give up on privacy altogether. Honey, no. Why should you have to hole up in some dank, busted forest for freedom and respect? You don’t.

Privacy isn't about hiding. It's about revealing what you want to who you want on your terms. It's your basic right to dignity.

Privacy isn't about hiding...It's your basic right to dignity.

A wise EFF technologist once told me, “Nothing makes you a ghost online.” So what we need is control, sweetie! You're not on your own! EFF worked for decades to set legal precedents for us, to push for good policy, fight crap policy, and create tools so you can be more private and secure on the web RIGHT NOW. They even have whole ass guides that help people around the world protect themselves online. For free!

I know a few things about strangers up in your business, leaked photos, and wanting to live in peace. Your rights and freedoms are too important to leave them up to tech companies and politicians. This world is a better place for having people like the lawyers, activists, and techs at EFF.

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Privacy is a "human" right

Privacy is a team sport and the team needs you. Sign up with EFF today and not only can you get fun stuff (featuring ya boy Footy), you’ll make the internet better for everyone.

XOXO,

Bigfoot DLS

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At least twice each year, we invite current EFF members to gather with fellow internet freedom supporters and to meet the people behind your favorite digital civil liberties organization. For this year’s Bay Area based members, we had the opportunity to take over Babylon Burning’s screen printing shop in San Francisco, where Mike Lynch and his team bring EFF art(work) to life.

To kick off the evening we had EFF’s Director of Member Engagement Aaron Jue, talk about the near-20-year friendship between EFF and Babylon Burning, the shop that has printed everything from t-shirts to hoodies to hats, and now tote bags. At EFF, we love the opportunity to support a local business and have a great partnership at the same time. When we send our artwork to Mike and his staff, we know it is in good hands.

Following Aaron, EFF’s Creative Director Hugh D’Andrade dived into some of EFF’s most popular works such as the NSA Spying Eagle and the many versions of the EFF Liberty Mecha. The EFF NSA Spying Eagle focuses on mass surveillance found in the Hepting and Jewel cases. The EFF Liberty Mecha has been featured on four different occasions, most recently on a shirt for DEF CON 29, and highlights freedom, empowerment through technology, interoperability, and teamwork. More information about EFF’s member shirts can be found in our blog and in our shop.

Mike jumped in after Hugh to walk members though a hands-on demonstration of traditional screen printing. Members printed tote bags, toured the Babylon Burning print shop, and mingled with EFF staff and local supporters.

Thank you to everyone that attended this year’s Spring Members’ Speakeasy and continue to support EFF as a member. Your support allows our engineers, lawyers, and skilled advocates to tend the path for technology users, and to nurture your rights to privacy, expression, and innovation online.

Thanks to all of the EFF members who participated at our annual Bay Area meetup. If you're not a member of EFF yet, join us today. See you at the next event!

You might’ve heard that most of EFF’s funding comes from regular people’s modest donations—we’re proud of that. But did you know that EFF members who donate $10 or less each month raised over $400,000 for digital rights this year?

That covers multiple staff members who work in the courts, run advocacy campaigns, and build privacy-enhancing free tech. It might seem like a small gift from you, but it's a huge help to EFF. Truly, just a little does a whole lot. You can be a Sustaining Donor for as little as five bucks a month and, right now, you’ll help EFF get a Year-End Challenge boost!

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Start an automatic monthly or annual gift by December 31 and help unlock bonus grants! Every supporter gets EFF closer to a series of seven Year-End Challenge grants set by EFF’s board. These grants become larger as the number of online rights supporters grows. See the counter.

But Wait! There’s More...

Protecting digital privacy and free speech is its own reward. The Year-End Challenge bonus grants make it even better. But here’s one more reason to start a small monthly donation: choice EFF member gear every year.

EFF’s new Watching the Watchers t-shirt is now available with the $5/month Copper Level Membership! There’s an array of fun conversation-starting member perks so you can show your support.

Your freedom is EFF’s guiding star. Help us keep advancing toward a future that supports the rights of tech users everywhere. Start a convenient monthly or annual recurring donation to support digital rights and you’ll help EFF unlock bonus grants before the year ends!

Do you ever look at something once and then get targeted ads? Have you ever been exposed in some company’s data breach? Have you ever heard a lawmaker push restrictions on technology that they don’t even understand?

To live in the modern world is to interact with technology in ways that are wonderful—and others that are an absolute pain in the butt. It's not fair to trade in your dignity or safety, and that’s why people like you stand with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Will you keep EFF fighting and boost us up in our Year-End Challenge?

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Unlock bonus grants in 2023!

Make ANY donation by December 31 and you’ll help unlock bonus grants for EFF! Every single supporter counts toward getting EFF closer to a series of seven Year-End Challenge grants set by EFF’s board of directors. These grants become larger as the number of online rights supporters grows. See the counter.

EFF is Not Messing Around

Tech touches nearly every aspect of the world, and your rights need protection. Recently, EFF members enabled our team to:

• Speak out at the United Nations Cybercrime Treaty negotiations to stop the countries of the world from agreeing to undermine our digital rights.
• Work on multiple court cases that likely inspired a federal judge to rule that cell phone searches at the U.S. border require a warrant.
  
• Call out proposals across the globe that would sacrifice your speech and security under the pretense of protecting children.
• Spell out the dangers of automated license plate readers (ALPRs), leading California’s Attorney General to declare that it’s illegal to share this data out-of-state.
• Lobby to end Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act to stop the FBI and NSA’s massive access to our communications without a warrant.

EFF has one guiding star: your freedom as a tech user. You can help EFF’s lawyers, activists, policy analysts, and technologists keep advancing toward a brighter future for everybody. Donate to support digital rights today and you’ll help EFF unlock bonus grants before the year ends!

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EFF is celebrating TEN YEARS of top ratings from the nonprofit watchdog Charity Navigator. EFF is a member-supported U.S. 501(c)(3) organization and your donation is tax-deductible as allowed by law. You can even start a convenient monthly donation.

Power Up Your Donation Week is here! Right now, your contribution will have double the impact on digital privacy, security, and free speech rights for everyone.

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Donate to EFF for an instant 2X match

Thanks to a fund made by a group of dedicated EFF supporters, now through December 5th every online donation gets an instant match up to $304,200! This means every dollar you give becomes two dollars toward fighting surveillance, defending encryption, promoting open access to information, and much more. EFF makes every cent count. 

Free the Web!

Where else can you get health information, talk about your favorite anime, tell a friend you miss them, and learn how to fix that weird issue on your phone all at once? It’s hard to imagine a place where you can be as creative and connected as you are on the internet.

But these gifts also mean that corporations and governments fight hard to control what technology users say and do on the web. Together, we're defending civil liberties and human rights online. Thank you for helping EFF attorneys, activists, policy analysts, and technologists free the web for everyone. And even if you're not able to donate today, consider helping us spread the word to others. Here’s some sample language that you can share:

Thank you for allowing EFF to stand by you and your rights as technology touches evermore aspects of the world. It's a tough place to navigate and we're proud to give our all for your digital freedom. I hope you'll consider making a year-end contribution to help us make the future a little brighter.