Electronic Frontier Foundation

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The following entries are flagged as duplicates of this organisation: 802311918789-51

Overview

Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.

Lobbying Costs

None declared

Financial year: Jul 2021 - Jun 2022

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

1 Fte (1)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

High-level Commission meetings

3

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    Electronic Frontier Foundation   (EFF)

    EU Transparency Register

    805637038375-01 First registered on 16 Jun 2020

    Goals / Remit

    The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development. We work to ensure that rights and freedoms are enhanced and protected as our use of technology grows. Even in the fledgling days of the Internet, EFF understood that protecting access to developing technology was central to advancing freedom for all. In the years that followed, EFF used our fiercely independent voice to clear the way for open source software, encryption, security research, file sharing tools, and a world of emerging technologies. Today, EFF uses the unique expertise of leading technologists, activists, and attorneys in our efforts to defend free speech online, fight illegal surveillance, advocate for users and innovators, and support freedom-enhancing technologies. Together, w (...)

    Main EU files targeted

    - Working on the implementation of the Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 October 2022 on a Single Market For Digital Services and amending Directive 2000/31/EC (Digital Services Act)

    - Working on the implementation of the Regulation (EU) 2022/1925 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 September 2022 on contestable and fair markets in the digital sector and amending Directives (EU) 2019/1937 and (EU) 2020/1828 (Digital Markets Act)

    - Working on the implementation of the Directive (EU) 2019/790 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market, including participating in the Article 17 Expert Group to the Commission (https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/organisation-stakeholder-dialogue-application-article-17-directive-copyright-digital-single).

    - Working on the Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse COM/2022/209 final

    - Working on the Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL amending Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 as regards establishing a framework for a European Digital Identity COM/2021/281 final

    - Working on the Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL establishing a common framework for media services in the internal market (European Media Freedom Act)

    - Working on the upcoming EU Connectivity Package

    Address

    Head Office
    815 Eddy Street San Francisco, CA 94109 USA
    San Francisco
    UNITED STATES
    EU Office
    815 Eddy Street San Francisco, CA 94109 USA
    San Francisco
    UNITED STATES

    Website

    http://eff.org

  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    1

    Employment timeLobbyists
    100%1

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    1

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    No lobbyists with EP accreditations

    Complementary Information

    None declared

    Person in charge of EU relations

    Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR

    Person with legal responsibility

    Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR

  • Categories

    Category

    Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    None declared

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Interests represented

    Does not represent commercial interests

    Closed financial year

    Jul 2021 - Jun 2022

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.

    Total organisational budget in closed year

    15,747,260€

    Major funding types in closed year

    Donations, Other, Grants, Member's contribution

    Major contributions in closed year

    TypeNameAmount
    Contribution Dan Saltman 2,200,640€
    Contribution Filecoin Foundation 5,536,200€

    Other financial info

    EFF has around 40,000 members, and the majority of its revenues come from public support, including donations and contributions as well as memberships.

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    none

    Groups (European Parliament)

    N/A

    Communication activities

    We are accompanying the implementation process of the Digital Services Act (DSA) and and the Digital Markets Act (DMA), focusing on implementation challenges. Among others, we work to ensure that the DSA becomes a positive model for legislation outside the EU. As regards the DMA, we will have a strong focus on the provisions about app-stores and on interoperability. On the latter, we will work to ensure that the interoperability mandate can work in practice, meeting security expectations and the expectations of internet users. Our work includes the participation in events, the launch of campaigns, responses to public consultations, and cooperation with other civil society organizations. https://www.eff.org/pages/adoption-dsadma-notre-analyse

    As a former member of the EU stakeholder group on the Copyright Directive implementation, which has worked to help drafting the implementation guidance document, we are continuing following the implementation of the Copyright Directive in the European Union. In a recent judgment, the CJEU has failed to set out parameters to help platforms decide when and when not to block content. As EFF, we will continue working to ensure that copyright rules work in the public interest. We are publishing related communication and coordinate with other civil society groups to inform the national implementation process. e.g. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/eus-copyright-directive-still-about-filters-eus-top-court-limits-its-use

    We are dedicating advocacy work efforts to the European Media Freedom Act, in particular related to the new mechanism to identify media service providers based on self-declaration and giving all media providers special treatment. https://edri.org/our-work/policy-statement-on-article-17-of-the-proposed-european-media-freedom-act/

    Furthermore, we are publishing about the eIDAS proposal, which could risk undermining the security of HTTPS in users' browsers. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/eus-digital-identity-framework-endangers-browser-security

    We will also advocate to ensuring net neutrality in the upcoming EU Connectivity Package. https://www.eff.org/issues/net-neutrality

    Other activities

    None declared

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    3 meetings found. Download meetings

    The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't publish information about such meetings. All information below comes from European Commission web pages.

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