What about donations to Wikileaks? Or maybe even the ACLU. I'm not convinced the EFF has been a consistent critic of the administration. The problem is organizations that have a partisan bias which makes their advocacy suspect.
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#22What about donations to Wikileaks? Or maybe even the ACLU. I'm not convinced the EFF has been a consistent critic of the administration. The problem is organizations that have a partisan bias which makes their advocacy suspect.
They are not and should not be a consistent critic of any administration. I see them as a non-partisan voice of the people for and against policies which otherwise are without a voice. When the administration issues a call against bad patents, the EFF supports and promotes that call When the administration issues a call to silence all discussion of warrantless wiretapping they denounce that call.
If they were entirely partisan or entirely anti-government they'd be a lot less effectual. By being issue-specific and in helping the government properly codify their own laws in addition to just slamming them for bad laws the EFF is a much more powerful and respectable entity worthy of our support.
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#23Great idea!
I've also just added EFF as a charity option on my activism site [1]. I donated as a bounty for my favorite task championing Score Voting for national elections, which I incidentally feel is a necessary reform to get some alternative voices heard and potentially elected.
[1] https://www.brianstaskforce.com/blog/electronic-frontier-fou...
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#24Also, you may want to support this new bill that will be introduced by Sen. Paul, tomorrow (call your senator to vote for it, etc): http://reason.com/blog/2013/06/06/rand-paul-to-introduce-fou...
If the linked PDF is actually the text of the bill then it does nothing. Searching, it will be argued, is the active analysis of collected phone calls/internet logs still currently illegal without a warrant. The passive archiving will be unaffected. Paul, I'd assume -though that assumption in turn assumes he's smart enough to tie his own shoes- knows or was told this already. So... PR stunt?
Total dick move too trying to corner the issue while it's hot without consulting with Wyden and Udall who've been working on this for years.
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#25Running a remailer or Tor node, or somehow deploying crypto (opportunistic crypto if you can't do anything better) is a lot more useful than donating to the EFF, at this point.
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#26Funny thing, while talking about donating to EFF I just came to know two of my friends here in India who donate to many causes in the USA and Turkey, which is of course commendable but never to any cause back here at home!
When I simply asked, why(curiosity)? One of them said, "well, you know..hmm..whatever man. It's just a choice". He stopped at that. And then countd a few Indian charities he had donated to and that included INR 51000 at an Andhra temple(his home state) and then was quick to add "that temple does a lot of charity work". I guess it was one of those US Visa God temples.
Another was clearer in her response. She said, "I've done my masters there and plan to settle there".
I guess I'll start actively donating to AAP[1] now, along with WikiLeaks and WikiPedia and few others.
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#27Also, you may want to support this new bill that will be introduced by Sen. Paul, tomorrow (call your senator to vote for it, etc): http://reason.com/blog/2013/06/06/rand-paul-to-introduce-fou...
http://www.paul.senate.gov/files/documents/4thAmdtRestoratio... One page, straight to the point. Nice.
Actually, it isn't. Ambiguity in existing laws is exactly what has allowed the NSA to do what they've been doing.
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#28The page mentions what they do but not WHERE they do it ...
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#29Running a remailer or Tor node, or somehow deploying crypto (opportunistic crypto if you can't do anything better) is a lot more useful than donating to the EFF, at this point.
Remember that EFF funded Tor for a year[1] to help it get started, and currently codes and releases HTTPS Everywhere [2] to increase opportunistic crypto for everyone. Your donation[3] will fund open source technological solutions, as well as legal work and activism.
(Disclosure: I work for EFF)
[1] http://www.onion-router.net/History.html (2004) [2] https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere [3] https://supporters.eff.org/donate
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#30The page mentions what they do but not WHERE they do it ...
We work primarily in the US, but also have an international section (which I help run). For instance, we just had two staffers in Peru fighting TPP, we advised the UN on a key report highlighting the dangers of collecting metadata without due process (topical), and I'm just going to go to Cambodia to help bring local journalists up to speed there on Internet policy and their own digital security (via Tokyo, where I'm trying to persuade the W3C to drop their DRM proposals).
We have to be selective in what we do and we can't be everywhere, but fortunately there are many other digital rights organizations across the world that we help. If you have a local one, please support it. If you don't have one, start one, and then talk to us about helping you!