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Organizations

Organizations that defend digital rights, support open source software, and protect the rights of software companies and developers.

Digital Civil Liberties

  • ORG-EFF: Electronic Frontier Foundation — defends civil liberties in the digital world.
  • ORG-ACLU: American Civil Liberties Union — defends constitutional rights including technology-related civil liberties.
  • ORG-CDT: Center for Democracy and Technology — promotes democratic values in technology policy.
  • ORG-KNIGHT-FIRST-AMENDMENT: Knight First Amendment Institute — litigates First Amendment cases in the digital age.
  • ORG-PUBLIC-KNOWLEDGE: Public Knowledge — advocates for an open internet, balanced copyright, and telecommunications policy.
  • ORG-EPIC: Electronic Privacy Information Center — privacy, surveillance, and AI accountability research and litigation.
  • ORG-RCFP: Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press — pro bono legal services for journalists and press freedom.
  • ORG-INSTITUTE-FOR-JUSTICE: Institute for Justice — nonprofit public interest law firm defending free speech and government overreach.
  • ORG-INSTITUTE-FOR-FREE-SPEECH: Institute for Free Speech — First Amendment political speech litigation and advocacy.
  • ORG-FIRE: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression — campus and public free-speech / academic-freedom advocacy and litigation.
  • ORG-COMMITTEE-FOR-THE-FIRST-AMENDMENT: Committee for the First Amendment — entertainment-industry coalition opposing government censorship and intimidation; relaunched 2025.

Open Source and Software Freedom

  • ORG-OSI: Open Source Initiative — steward of the Open Source Definition.
  • ORG-FSF: Free Software Foundation — promotes computer user freedom and maintains the GPL.
  • ORG-SOFTWARE-FREEDOM-CONSERVANCY: Software Freedom Conservancy — provides legal and organizational support for FOSS projects.
  • ORG-SFLC: Software Freedom Law Center — pro bono legal services for open source developers.

Technology Law Firms

  • ORG-COOLEY: Cooley — technology transactions and venture-backed company counsel.
  • ORG-FENWICK: Fenwick — technology and life sciences law firm.
  • ORG-PERKINS-COIE: Perkins Coie — technology, privacy, and digital media practice.
  • ORG-WILSON-SONSINI: Wilson Sonsini — technology and venture capital law firm.
  • Systems Under Open-Internet Pressure — Tor, Signal, Telegram, PGP, Hyphanet, GNUnet, GrapheneOS, Tornado Cash, Samourai Wallet, and related technology records tracked for design and legal exposure

How to Engage

Each organization has a corresponding contact record in the Contacts section with actionable intake paths for getting legal help or organizational support. See also the Generated Outreach CRM.