The Electronic Frontier Foundation, formed in 1990 with funding from early software industry moguls such as Mitch Kapor and John Perry Barlow, has been fighting legal battles for over a decade on behalf of a free and open Internet as well as citizen privacy. However, the group, originally based in Cambridge, MA, skedaddled out of Washington after internal battles over whether compromise, the lifeblood of politics, suited such a purist group.
Now based in San Francisco, EFF is about to reopen a DC office, according to this AP article. But the civil liberties organization won’t take up lobbying again, preferring to stick to its current litigation-focused charter.
The EFF is reopening a Washington office on Aug. 1 to tackle Freedom of Information Act and other cases, but Steele said the two attorneys there, hired from the Electronic Privacy Information Center, won’t engage in lobbying this time.
Many of EFF’s supporters say they’d like to see the organization at the lobbying table, but acknowledged that even a noncompromising stance can be useful in starting discussions that another group could complete.
Cynthia Brumfield at 11:27 AM|Comments(0)
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