Creative strategies and tactics to achieve the mission of the

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)Privacy, free speech, fair use, transparency,

and innovation in technology

Before I start, I want to ask a few questions.

Questions

• Do you want censorship on the internet?• Would you be in favor of a REAL ID card that

would give government and businesses the ability to easily read your private information off the cards in myriad contexts?

• Would you like your Google or Yahoo search engine results made public?

• Would you like employers, corporations, and other sources to know your health history?

More questions about privacy• Do you feel that certain governments can block

or tamper with domain names, filter and block specific keywords, block a particular IP address, or urge online content providers to remove content or search results?

• Do you think that governments should be able to listen in on cell phone calls, use voice recognition to scan mobile networks, read emails and text messages, censor web pages, track a citizen’s every movement using GPS, and can even change email contents while en route to a recipient?

If you answered no to at least one of these questions, then you should be aware of technology related privacy issues.

Representing the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), I want to show strategies in this presentation so we can all keep successfully defending all of our digital rights.

Core ideas One of the tactics that I want to stress is the

teamwork, communication, and collaboration with other companies, individuals, and organizations who have significant web presence as tools when our rights are in the process of being challenged. I would like to make an example of such a process and how valuable it can be in protecting our digital rights before legislation is even able to gain steam in the Senate or House of Representatives. Maintaining good partnerships and creating working networks of partners will be valuable to indentify these infringements on our digital rights and then we will have the ability to act quickly and efficiently.

(SOPA)

I want to touch on two recent cases that hammer this point. One is the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). This act was proposed to "to promote prosperity, creativity, entrepreneurship, and innovation by combating the theft of U.S. property, and for other purposes." It is House Bill H.R. 3261, and while this design description sounds lovely, the bill itself will actually undermine all of what it sets out to protect. Our company warned that websites such as Flickr, Etsy and Vimeo would all likely be shut down if the bill became law.

Many of you were made aware of this issue from large banners presented on websites like Wikipedia, Yahoo, Google, and others. It was heavy hitters such as Google, Yahoo!, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, AOL, LinkedIn, eBay, Mozilla Corporation, Mojang, Roblox, Riot Games, Epic Games, Reddit, Wikipedia, and the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as human rights organizations such as Reporters Without Borders, the ACLU, and Human Rights Watch who all came together and defeated the bill.

Get involved

We must also get involved when we see acts of an infringement of our digital rights. I will explain the strategies I set forth in my final paper, which can help in efficiently helping those who need it.

Strategy

Incident of digital rights infringement Raise awareness

through third-party websites (Facebook, Youtube, etc)

Report the issue to the public on our website

Write and publish story and distribute to our media outlets (print, internet, mass comm.)

Partner and network with our clients and make the issue aware

Contact proper legal authorities on issue including our own legal team

Future of the EFF I want Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to continue

to empower us as speakers, citizens, creators, and consumers. As our motto says, "when our freedoms in the networked world come under attack, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the first line of defense for defending free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights today. From the beginning, EFF has championed the public interest in every critical battle affecting digital rights. We will continue to use the expertise of lawyers, policy analysts, activists, and technologists, and remain a donor-funded nonprofit organization.