{"id":3,"date":"2006-07-05T11:23:01","date_gmt":"2006-07-05T15:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/anonymous\/2006\/07\/05\/happy-sweet-sixteen-eff\/"},"modified":"2006-07-05T13:19:42","modified_gmt":"2006-07-05T17:19:42","slug":"happy-sweet-sixteen-eff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anonymous\/2006\/07\/05\/happy-sweet-sixteen-eff\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy sweet sixteen, EFF!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\">Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/a> will be sweet sixteen on July 10th this year.  Some of us here in Cambridge remember the first offices in Tech Square, before they moved to DC, schismed over the role of lobbying vs litigation, and moved to California.   The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdt.org\">Center for Democracy and Technology<\/a> was the lobbying group that remained in DC.<\/p>\n<p>Now, according to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/789\/story\/532638.html\">this story<\/a> (widely syndicated through AP), EFF is hiring a couple lawyers away from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/anonymous\/wp-admin\/http:www.epic.org\">EPIC<\/a> to create a new DC branch office again.<\/p>\n<p>In the current climate, we need the EFF more than ever &#8212; the cases they handle as the &#8220;ACLU of the Net&#8221; are increasingly touching everyone&#8217;s life, as they confront telco releases of phone records and other headline issues.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/tor.eff.org\/\">Tor<\/a>&#8216;s mentioned in the article &#8212; EFF&#8217;s our fiscal sponsor.<\/p>\n<p><cite>&#8212; Thanks to Ron Newman for the tip on this story<\/cite><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Electronic Frontier Foundation will be sweet sixteen on July 10th this year. Some of us here in Cambridge remember the first offices in Tech Square, before they moved to DC, schismed over the role of lobbying vs litigation, and moved to California. The Center for Democracy and Technology was the lobbying group that remained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anonymous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anonymous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anonymous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anonymous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anonymous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anonymous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anonymous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anonymous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anonymous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}