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EFF Wants Your Money

By Ryan Singel, Kevin Poulsen, Sarah Lai Stirland, Kim Zetter, and David Kravets

p a href="http://blog.wired.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/12/17/picture_13.png" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=454,height=83,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" img width="350" height="63" border="0" alt="Picture_13" title="Picture_13" src="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/images/2008/12/17/picture_13.png" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px; float: right;"/img /a /p pThe Electronic Frontier Foundation is feeling a little jolly these days./p pAs part of its latest donor campaign, it's created a brief, albeit a href="http://w2.eff.org/12days/"humorous animated video/aespousing why it needs your cash. /p pAmong other things, the video highlights the group's fight for electronic rights, including its a href="http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/index.blog?entry_id=1488418"lawsuit/achallenging President Bush's warrantless eavesdropping on Americans. /p pThe lawsuit prompted Congress to immunize telecoms that freely gave your private data to the Bush administration ? without warrants. (The EFF is now a href="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/10/telecom-spying.html"challenging that immunity legislation/a, which was a href="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/12/what-will-obama.html"supported by President-elected Barack Obama/a.)/p pWhat's more, the EFF video, released Wednesday, reviews the group's quest for a href="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/judge-copyright.html"fair use/aof copyrighted works, working electronic voting machines and how it a href="http://w2.eff.org/patent/"foiled wrongly issued patents/a./p p strongSee Also:/strong /p ul li a href="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/google-eff-appl.html#previouspost"Google, EFF Applaud Veoh DMCA Ruling/a /li li a href="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/10/telecom-spying.html#previouspost"Telecom Spying Amnesty Unconstitutional, EFF Tells Court/a /li li a href="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/03/cal-eff-come-to.html#previouspost"EFF and U.C. Berkeley Defend Accused Coupon Hacker in DMCA Suit .../a /li li a href="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/eff-and-feds-ba.html#previouspost"EFF and Feds Battle Over Dormant Spy Lawsuit as Immunity Battle .../a /li li a href="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/eff-to-weigh-in.html#previouspost"EFF to Weigh in on First RIAA Downloading Trial Appeal/a /li li a href="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/06/eff-scores-goog.html#previouspost"EFF Scores Google's Litigation Gun/a /li li a href="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/eff-to-appeal-r.html#previouspost"Federal Judge in DefCon Case Equates Speech with Hacking .../a /li li a href="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/06/eff_privacy_adv.html#previouspost"EFF Privacy Advocate Sighted in Google Street View/a /li li a href="http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/index.blog%3Fentry_id%3D1468765#previouspost"Feds Drop Bomb on EFF Lawsuit/a /li li a href="http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/index.blog%3Fentry_id%3D1531667#previouspost"EFF ATT NSA Lawsuit Update in 4.1 Grafs/a /li li a href="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/12/feds-eff-arguin.html#previouspost"In Courtroom Showdown, Bush Demands Amnesty for Spying Telecoms .../a /li li a href="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2006/11/eff_sues_sex_sh.html#previouspost"EFF Sues Sex Shamer, Says He Shut Down Critic With Fake Copyright .../a /li li a href="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2006/09/effs_safe_searc.html#previouspost"EFF's Safe Search Recommendations/a /li li a href="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2006/08/eff_complains_s.html#previouspost"EFF Complains, Someone Else Will Sue/a /li li a href="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2006/07/state_secrets_e.html#previouspost"State Secrets Expert: EFF Decision Unprecedented/a /li /ul br clear="both" style="clear: both;" br clear="both" style="clear: both;" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=9d4b60967d383452ef3edc9937ded642amp;p=1" img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=9d4b60967d383452ef3edc9937ded642amp;p=1"/img /a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=9d4b60967d383452ef3edc9937ded642" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/img pa href="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired27b?a=2xJWs2"img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired27b?i=2xJWs2" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired27b?a=mHkvO"img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired27b?i=mHkvO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired27b?a=v8jHo"img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired27b?i=v8jHo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired27b?a=MFnno"img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired27b?i=MFnno" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired27b?a=1cnsO"img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired27b?i=1cnsO" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired27b/~4/488211950" height="1" width="1"/

Full post as published by Threat Level on December 17, 2008 (boomark / email).