In July 1990, prominent figures like Mitch Kapor, John Perry Barlow, and John Gilmore established the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to advocate for online community rights. Cindy Cohn became involved in 2000, participating in cases such as that of math PhD student Dan Bernstein, who sought to publish cryptography software amidst US export restrictions. The EFF's legal battles included significant cases involving privacy, online operations, and government surveillance, exemplified by Mark Klein's revelations about AT&T's collaboration with the US government to monitor communications.
The organization has since been prominent in some of the most important legal battles for privacy, online operations, and legislative correction.
The EFF was helping a math PhD student at UC Berkeley named Dan Bernstein, who wanted to publish a cryptography program on the internet and was facing the US export restrictions.
With the EFF's help, he beat the case. It was one of the first of many such cases.
Mark Klein realized he'd set up a system for AT&T to monitor communications through its switching stations and relay data to the US government.
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