Also, you may want to support this new bill that will be introduced by Sen. Paul, tomorrow (call your senator to vote for it, etc):<p><a href="http://reason.com/blog/2013/06/06/rand-paul-to-introduce-fourth-amendment" rel="nofollow">http://reason.com/blog/2013/06/06/rand-paul-to-introduce-fou...</a>
@il, thanks for posting this.<p>I'm now donating $10 per month, and consider it money well spent.<p>@Everyone: Tag along and sign up for a monthly donation!
I might be cynical but you cannot lobby against this. The only way you can avoid being watched is to actually take technical countermeasures to prevent being watched.<p>What good is donating to the EFF when they have no power to stop the CIA/NSA from doing this?
Thanks for the reminder to get this set up again (they could probably use some help getting payment expired emails set up, or if they have them, I never saw them). In for $25/mo.
If I were to donate to EFF, I'd want to do so anonymously. Like very anonymously. So bitcoin is an interesting option - depending on how easy it is to get bitcoin anonymously. I don't want other charities or political organisations to hound me for years afterwards. And I don't want a donation to be used against me if/when some overblown official in my country decides that EFF is a terrorist organisation.<p>I found the humble bundle is a good way of donating to EFF, because that way at least it looks like a game purchase rather than a donation. If I were interested in donating of course.
Great idea!<p>I've also just added EFF as a charity option on my activism site [1]. I donated as a bounty for my favorite task championing Score Voting for national elections, which I incidentally feel is a necessary reform to get some alternative voices heard and potentially elected.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.brianstaskforce.com/blog/electronic-frontier-foundation-added-as-charity" rel="nofollow">https://www.brianstaskforce.com/blog/electronic-frontier-fou...</a>
What about donations to Wikileaks? Or maybe even the ACLU. I'm not convinced the EFF has been a consistent critic of the administration. The problem is organizations that have a partisan bias which makes their advocacy suspect.
Is EFF an international organization? Do they fight for the rights of everybody or are they mostly US-centered? On their about page they mention going up against the US government and large corporations but I see nothing about any international effort. I suppose this could be because of how much of the internet live in the US, so I was wondering if anyone could shed any more light on this.
Running a remailer or Tor node, or somehow deploying crypto (opportunistic crypto if you can't do anything better) is a lot more useful than donating to the EFF, at this point.
Funny thing, while talking about donating to EFF I just came to know two of my friends here in India who donate to many causes in the USA and Turkey, which is of course commendable but never to any cause back here at home!<p>When I simply asked, why(curiosity)? One of them said, "well, you know..hmm..whatever man. It's just a choice". He stopped at that. And then countd a few Indian charities he had donated to and that included INR 51000 at an Andhra temple(his home state) and then was quick to add "that temple does a lot of charity work". I guess it was one of those US Visa God temples.<p>Another was clearer in her response. She said, "I've done my masters there and plan to settle there".<p>I guess I'll start actively donating to AAP[1] now, along with WikiLeaks and WikiPedia and few others.<p>[1]<a href="https://www.google.co.in/search?q=aam+aadmi+party" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.co.in/search?q=aam+aadmi+party</a>