Who, why, and what the EFF? Ask the Electronic Frontier Foundation

Google TechTalk April 27, 2009 Summary Who, why, and what the EFF? Ask the Electronic Frontier Foundation on copyright, innovation and the NSA The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is a leading civil liberties groups on the Internet. Join EFF lawyers, why are the latest on the fight against unauthorized interception, while promoting greater government transparency and protect the right of the media has their own use. Defcon to the DMCA, the RIAA NSA, indicate thatIndeed, this conflict in which legislation, technology and civil liberties. The panelists are Fred von Lohmann, Marcia Hofmann, and Kurt Opsahl. Fred von Lohmann is a senior attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in issues relating to intellectual property. As such, it has represented programmers, technology innovators, and people in a series of disputes concerning copyright and trademark, including MGM v. Grokster, the Supreme Court ruled in 2005. Marcia Hofmann is an EFF attorneyGovernment is working on transparency, civil liberties and issues of intellectual property. With her colleague David Sobel, who established the EFF FOIA Litigation for Responsible Government (FLAG) Project. Kurt Opsahl is a Senior Staff Attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation focusing on civil liberties, freedom of speech and privacy. Before joining EFF, Opsahl at Perkins Coie, where he was herepresented technology clients on intellectual property, privacy, defamation andother online liability issues, including working on Kelly v. loopnet Arribasoft, MGM v. Grokster and co-star British Columbia. For his work responding to what richiestoci government, Opsahl is proud to have called a "mad dog" of the Department of Justice.