Onward, Friends
A longtime Electronic Frontier Foundation staff member is departing after 26 years, marking the end of a tenure that spanned the organization's growth from a small advocacy group into a major force in digital rights, encryption, and surveillance accountability.
Why this matters: EFF is one of the few organizations that has consistently shown up when governments or companies push too far into people's digital lives. Twenty-six years is most of the public internet's existence. The people who built that institutional knowledge matter. Organizations like this do not run on mission statements — they run on people who know the history, know the fights, and know how to win them. That kind of continuity is worth paying attention to when it changes.
Who should care: Privacy officers · Cybersecurity · General readers · Policy
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