The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the digital world’s top watchdog when it comes to privacy and free expression.
But while cops and firefighters are often ready to retire after 25 years on the job, protecting citizens, the EFF has a full agenda as it celebrates its 25th anniversary today.
The EFF was founded in 1990, when the Web still had just one webpage. Its first major case was one in which the U.S. Secret Service, hunting a stolen documented, raided a company’s computers, computers that were also used to run an online bulletin board, and read and deleted those users’ messages.
The company, Steve Jackson Games, and some of the users of that bulletin board, thought that the government overstepped its warrant.
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