Iyow - in your own words

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has recently won one small battle in the war for civil liberties. In its class-action lawsuit against AT&T for collaborating in the domestic spying program, the presiding judge refused AT&T’s request to exclude company documents, ordering AT&T to work with EFF to produce public versions of the documents.

Wired has the full account from whistleblower and former AT&T technician Mark Klein’s discovery of the surveillance operation.

If the EFF continues to make significant wins on the NSA/domestic spying issue, they will become a household name – and not just in Bay Area-like technospheres.

Thus far, the EFF has a mixed record both victory- and focus-wise. For example, five years ago they challenged the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DCMA), arguing in a then-groundbreaking but ultimately unsuccessful case that computer code is free speech. Now though they are making some progress in the areas of privacy protection and consumer rights.

EFF’s avowed legal victories are linked here, and there is a nice condensed history of the organization on WIkipedia.