Concept information
Preferred term
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Definition
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) was founded in 1990 by Mitchell Kapor and John Perry Barlow as a San Francisco–based civil liberties group that advocates for First Amendment rights in the area of digital and other new technologies. The EFF supports free speech on the Internet, seeks the protection of encryption technologies, and defends the rights of online journalists and bloggers. [Source: Encyclopedia of the First Amendment; Electronic Frontier Foundation]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation
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