Electronic Frontier Foundation, Inc. is a donor-funded U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization focused on defending civil liberties in the digital world. It works across privacy, free expression, innovation, surveillance, and technology accountability issues through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development. Its work is aimed at protecting people when constitutional rights, public policy, and digital systems intersect.
Beyond advocacy, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Inc. develops and maintains public-interest software, privacy and security education, and research resources that help people understand and respond to digital threats. It also operates programs that mobilize supporters, support local organizing, and provide channels for legal intake and issue reporting, extending its role from policy advocacy into practical assistance and digital rights infrastructure.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Electronic Frontier Foundation, Inc. combines legal advocacy, policy engagement, public education, and software development rather than operating as a single-product organization. Its capabilities include bringing and supporting court challenges, filing amicus briefs, analyzing legislation and regulation, publishing issue research, and running grassroots campaigns on digital rights topics.
On the technology and education side, it builds open-source privacy and security tools, publishes practical guides and explainers, maintains surveillance research resources, and supports community organizing through action and network programs. This mix allows Electronic Frontier Foundation, Inc. to serve both immediate user needs and longer-term structural work on internet freedom, privacy, and civil liberties.
Products and Services
- Privacy Badger: A free, open-source browser extension that blocks advertisers and other third parties from tracking users across websites.
- Surveillance Self-Defense: An online digital security guide that helps people assess risks and adopt safer tools and practices against surveillance.
- Certbot: A free, open-source software tool that helps domain owners and website administrators deploy and renew HTTPS certificates on manually administered websites.
- Atlas of Surveillance: A searchable research database that maps surveillance technologies used by local law enforcement agencies across the United States.
- Cover Your Tracks: A browser testing and research tool that shows how tracking and fingerprinting techniques can identify users online.
- Street Level Surveillance: A public education hub that explains surveillance technologies commonly used by law enforcement and how they affect communities.
- apkeep: A command-line tool for downloading Android APK files from supported app sources, built for security research and malware analysis use cases.
- Action Center: An activism platform that lets supporters take action on policy campaigns, sign petitions, and contact decision-makers on digital rights issues.
- Electronic Frontier Alliance: A network and organizing program that connects and supports local grassroots groups working on technology, privacy, free expression, and civil liberties issues.
- Legal Assistance: An intake and referral service for people seeking help with matters at the intersection of technology and civil liberties.
Target Customers
Electronic Frontier Foundation, Inc. primarily serves internet users and communities affected by digital rights issues. Its audiences include consumers, activists, journalists, students, parents, educators, and members of the public looking for practical privacy, security, and free expression resources.
It also serves more specialized groups such as website administrators, domain owners, researchers, academics, policymakers, local organizers, and civil society partners. Through its legal, policy, educational, and technical work, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Inc. supports both individuals seeking immediate guidance and organizations working on broader structural change in the digital rights landscape.
Key People
- Nicole Ozer: Executive Director
- Rebecca Jeschke: Chief Operating Officer
- Kelly Esguerra: Chief Financial Officer
- Jennifer Lynch: General Counsel
- Gennie Gebhart: Managing Director, Technology
- Allison Morris: Chief Development Officer
- Corynne McSherry: Legal Director
- Aaron Mackey: Deputy Legal Director/Free Speech and Transparency Litigation Director
- India McKinney: Director of Federal Affairs
- Alexis Hancock: Director of Engineering
- Hayley Tsukayama: Director of State Affairs
Key Facts
- Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States
- Employees: 121
- Annual Revenue: $21,592,581
- Parent Company: None
- Subsidiaries: None
- Publicly Listed: Not publicly listed
