Launching the Electronic Frontier Alliance | Electronic Frontier Foundation

"We're excited to announce the formation of a new grassroots network, the Electronic Frontier Alliance. Bringing together community and campus organizations across the U.S., the Alliance will serve as an increasingly vital hub for activism and organizing addressing a spectrum of civil liberties and digital rights issues. The Alliance will bring together groups pursuing a range of strategies and tactics—from hacker spaces crowdsourcing the open source development of software tools, to student groups hosting teach-ins and documentary screenings. They will be united by five substantive principles: free expression: people should be able to speak their minds to whomever will listen. security: technology should be trustworthy and answer to its users. privacy: technology should allow private and anonymous speech, and allow users to set their own parameters about what to share with whom. creativity: technology should promote progress by allowing people to build on the ideas, creations, and inventions of others. access to knowledge: curiosity should be rewarded, not stifled. Some EFA member groups—like Penn for Privacy—will be new campus organizations coming together to engage students and young people. Others—like the Oakland Privacy Working Group—will be the product of longstanding community organizing initiatives ..."