# Electronic Frontier Foundation

The Electronic Frontier Foundation advocates for digital rights through litigation, technical work and public policy.

Type: organization. Context selected by Escape Meridian; inclusion is not endorsement.

[Collection](/entities/electronic-frontier-foundation)
[Original website](https://www.eff.org/)

## Sources

- [Electronic Frontier Foundation](https://www.eff.org/): Follow concrete conflicts over privacy, expression, surveillance and control of digital systems.

## Perspectives

- [Govern the harms already happening](/perspectives?position=eff-concrete-present-harms) (Rindala Alajaji, Tori Noble, Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, and Hayley Tsukayama): The authors urge California to address discrimination and surveillance now. They support loss-of-control reporting, want third-party investigations available to smaller developers, and warn that government shutdown powers could be abused.

## Terminal notes

- [California's AI order meets a demand for present harms](/notes/eff-ca-eo-2026-09-18.md): EFF welcomes California's AI order while urging attention to discrimination and surveillance already affecting people. It supports loss-of-control reporting and asks for third-party investigations accessible to smaller developers.

## Parallels

- [Use it now, or govern it now?](/parallels?parallel=present-use-and-present-harm): When today's systems already change work, which present effects should set the agenda?

## Context references

- [https://www.eff.org/](https://www.eff.org/)

Latest published distillations: [Publications API](/api/pipeline/publications?entity=electronic-frontier-foundation)