Electronic Frontier Foundation

Electronic Frontier Foundation
	EFF logo since July 2018
Abbreviation	EFF
Formation	June 10, 1990
Founders	Mitch Kapor, John Gilmore and John Perry Barlow
Type	Nonprofit
Purpose	Digital rights
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, U.S.
Region	Worldwide
Membership	40,000

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 1990 to promote Internet civil liberties.

It 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 are abusive patents with intentions to defeat those that it considers are without merit.