Electronic Frontier Foundation

Electronic Frontier Foundation
	Logo since 2018
Founded	July 10, 1990
Founders	Mitch Kapor; John Perry Barlow; John Gilmore;
Type	501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
Tax ID no.	04-3091431
Purpose	Digital rights, Internet activism, lobbying, and litigation
Location	815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, California, U.S.;
Coordinates	37°46′57″N 122°25′18″W
Area served	International
Chairman	Brian Behlendorf
Executive director	Cindy Cohn
Revenue (2020)	$12.2 million
Employees	79
Website	www.eff.org

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California. The foundation was formed on 10 July 1990 by John Gilmore, John Perry Barlow and Mitch Kapor to promote Internet civil liberties.

The EFF provides funds for legal defense in court, presents amicus curiae briefs, defends individuals and new technologies from what it considers abusive legal threats, works to expose government malfeasance, provides guidance to the government and courts, organizes political action and mass mailings, supports some new technologies which it believes preserve personal freedoms and online civil liberties, maintains a database and web sites of related news and information, monitors and challenges potential legislation that it believes would infringe on personal liberties and fair use and solicits a list of what it considers abusive patents with intentions to defeat those that it considers without merit.

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