Celebrating Digital Freedom with EFF Supporters: 2024 in Review

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“EFF’s mission is to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world.” It can be a tough job. A lot of our time is spent fighting bad things that are happening in the world or fixing things that have been broken for a long time.

But this work is important, and we’ve accomplished great things this year! Thanks to your help, we pushed the USPTO to withdraw harmful patent review proposals, fought for the public’s right to access police drone footage, and continue to see more and more of the web encrypted thanks to Certbot and Let’s Encrypt.

Of course, the biggest reason EFF is able to fight for privacy and free expression online is support from EFF members. Public support is not only the reason we can operate but is also a great motivator to wake up and advocate for what’s right—especially when we get to hang out with some really cool folks! And with that, I’d like to reminisce.

EFF’s Bay Area Festivities

Early in the year we held our annual Spring Members’ Speakeasy. We invited supporters in the Bay Area to join us at Babylon Burning, where all of EFF’s t-shirts, hoodies, and much of our swag are made. There, folks got a fun opportunity to hand print their own tote bag! It was a fun opportunity to see t-shirts that even I had never seen before. Side note, EFF has a lot of mechas on members’ t-shirts.