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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 2022 - Jun 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
High-level Commission meetings
5
Lobbying Costs over the years
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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 PackageAddress
Head Office
815 Eddy StreetSan Francisco
San Francisco CA 94109 USA
UNITED STATESEU Office
815 Eddy StreetSan Francisco
San Francisco CA 94109 USA
UNITED STATESWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 12 Dec 2024
Name Start date End Date Christoph Schmon 02 Oct 2024 01 Oct 2025 Complementary Information
N/A
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
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Categories
Category
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
In Europe, we are member of European Digital Rights (EDRi), an international advocacy group headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. https://edri.org/
Member organisations
EFF is not a formal membership organization. EFF is a donor-funded U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that depends on donors' support.
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Closed financial year
Jul 2022 - Jun 2023
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
17,266,556€
Major funding types in closed year
Donations, Member's contributions, Grants, Other
Funding types "other" information
corporate sponsorships, legal settlements
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Contribution Estate of Frederik Roeber 3,842,920€ 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.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
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-neutralityOther activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
5 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 proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.
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Date 13 Dec 2023 Location Videoconference Subject Digital policy Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Attending - Eleonora Ocello (Cabinet member)
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Date 12 Dec 2023 Location videoconference call Subject European Media Freedom Act Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Attending - Marie Frenay (Cabinet member)
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Date 09 Dec 2020 Location Videoconference Subject Roundtable with NGOs on DSA and DMA Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
- Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
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Date 18 Jun 2020 Location Videoconference Subject Digital services act Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
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Date 18 Jun 2020 Location Brussels Subject To discuss Digital Services Act Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)