The EFF is 35, but the battle to defend internet freedom is far from over www.theregister.com/2025/07/2…

In July 1990, before the World Wide Web even existed, an unusual alliance was formed to fight for the rights of the emerging online community.

Lotus founder Mitch Kapor, John Perry Barlow – who wrote some of the Grateful Dead’s most epic lyrics – and John Gilmore, co-founder of the GNU Project for free software and employee number five at Sun Microsystems, met in San Francisco to form the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

The organization has since been prominent in some of the most important legal battles for privacy, online operations, and legislative correction. The Register sat down with executive director Cindy Cohn to discuss the past, but more importantly what’s coming down the line.