Activists - Groups
Orgs. / Groups / Coalitions
- EFF - Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a non-profit civil liberties organization
working in the public interest to protect privacy, free expression, and access
to public resources and information online, as well as to promote responsibility
in new media.
- CPSR - Computer Professionals for Social
Reponsibility
CPSR is a public-interest alliance of computer scientists and others interested
in the impact of computer technology on society. As technical experts, CPSR
members provide the public and policymakers with realistic assessments of
the power, promise, and limitations of computer technology. As concerned citizens,
CPSR directs public attention to critical choices concerning the applications
of computing and how those choices affect society.
- EPICS - Electronic Privacy Information Centre
EPIC is a public interest research center in Washington, D.C. It was established
in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to
protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values. EPIC is a
project of the Fund for Constitutional Government. EPIC works in association
with Privacy International, an international human rights group based in London,
UK and is also a member of the Global Internet Liberty Campaign and the Internet
Privacy Coalition.
- The Center for Democracy and Technology
The Center For Democracy and Technology is a non-profit public interest organization
based in Washington, DC. CDT's mission is to develop and advocate public policies
that advance constitutional civil liberties and democratic values in new computer
and communications technologies.
- Association des Utilisateurs d'Internet (AUI)
Le but de l'AUI est de promouvoir le dÚveloppement et la dÚmocratisation de
l'utilisation des rÚseaux Úlectroniques de communication, et notamment d'Internet.
Son objet est d'engager toute action favorisant la dÚfense des principes de
coopÚration et d'ouverture d'Internet, ainsi que les droits de ses utilisateurs,
par l'organisation et le soutien d'activitÚs permettant la rÚalisation de
son but.
- Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition
In response to the indecency restrictions imposed on the Internet by the Communications
Decency Act (CDA), the Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition has been formed
to challenge the law as violative of the First Amendment.
The Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition (CIEC) is a large and diverse
group of organizations who share the common goal of protecting the First Amendment
and the viability of the Internet in the 21st century. Its 35 organizational
members include libraries, book publishers, newspaper publishers, editors,
advertisers, commercial online service providers, Internet access providers,
non-profit groups, and civil liberties advocates. Over 10,000 individual Internet
users have also joined the CIEC effort. The CIEC is coordinated by the Center
for Democracy and Technology, America Online, and the American Library Association.
- Internet Privacy Coalition
The mission of the Internet Privacy Coalition is to promote privacy and security
on the Internet through widespread public availability of strong encryption
and the relaxation of export controls on cryptography
- Digital Future Coalition
The Digital Future Coalition is a group of leading business, library, educational,
consumer and technology organizations committed to international copyright
law and policy that rewards and promotes creativity.
The DFC's 31 member organizations -- drawn from both the public and private
sectors of the economy -- believe that no new national or international copyright
norms pertaining to digital and other new technology should be adopted until
a broad consensus has emerged as to how those norms will maximize the benefits
of technology for all parts of society. Without such consensus, the legal
clarity sought through international negotiation cannot be achieved.
The three recently released treaty instruments which together comprise the
Agenda of the World Intellectual Property Organization's December 1996 Diplomatic
Conference in Geneva (some of which were tabled for the first time as late
as May of this year) place at serious risk a successful digital future, if
adopted in their present form.
- CU - CommUnity The Computer Communicators'
Association: An on-line group formed to represent the interests of the UK
online community.
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