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EFF Pioneer Award

By Michael Geist

I am truly stunned and incredibly honoured to have been named one of the recipients of the 2008 Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Awards.  As the release notes, "since 1991, the EFF Pioneer Awards have recognized individuals and organizations that have made significant and influential contributions to the development of computer-mediated communications and to the empowerment of individuals in using computers and the Internet." The list of past winners is remarkable - Tim Berners-Lee, Linus Torvalds, Jimmy Wales, Eben Moglen, Yochai Benkler, Vint Cerf, and many more.  I'm amazed to be included in this group and delighted to be receiving the award with the Mozilla Foundation and Mitchell Baker as well as Mark Klein, a former AT&T technician who blew the whistle on the U.S. government's warrantless surveillance program.  The awards will be presented at the Emerging Tech conference in San Diego early next month.

Full post as published by Michael Geist on February 21, 2008 (boomark / email).