Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “EFF: Electronic Frontier Foundation”.
My name is Amol Kalia and I’m with the Electronic Frontier Foundation here today we’re doing member outreach and we’re making sure that people know about us about our work and they can find ways to support us if you’re not familiar with our work. We’Re a member based member support, a nonprofit organization that does digital rights issues, we believe in free speech on the Internet. We believe in privacy on the Internet. We think that if you go online, your constitutional rights should go online with you and we’re a team of activists and lawyers who are working on this yet so what we do is that we do impact litigation, so basically, all the questions that arise that have never Before been seen by courts, especially federal courts, so we established precedent – that’s gon na be good for everyone in terms of when it comes to civil liberties on the internet. So one example of that is our Bernstein, the United States case, where we essentially established that code that you work on like a computer program that you write as part of your speech and the US government cannot put restrictions on that particular form.
So we made sure that in that particular instance, the researcher was being stopped from basically publishing his papers on the new encryption standard that he was developing Daniel J Bernstein and we took back for it. We took that case to the court and we essentially went in established that code is speech and that’s just one example of life. A lot of the high stakes, impact litigation ever even done over the years. We like making fear because we’re very based organization and there’s a lot of her supporters. Come to this event and in general, we, like the spirit of what this is about, is about bunch of people coming together and doing cool things a lot of times. We see implications for our work in it like, for instance, there’s drones here, and we will do a lot of work on privacy and growing issues.
But overall it’s just a you know. It’S an awesome event to come out to there’s a we reach out to people who may not necessarily reach out to, and it’s good to, interact with and then give information about what we do to different .