Transparency

Emerging technologies have the potential to create a more democratic relationship between public institutions and the citizens they serve. Today, a broad range of new tools are allowing the public to more closely examine government and corporate entities, and to hold them accountable for deception, censorship and corruption. Part of EFF's mission is to foster and promote the creation and use of these tools.

EFF has three major active projects working to these ends. The FOIA Litigation for Accountable Government (FLAG) project uses the Freedom Of Information Act to expose the government's expanding use of new technologies that invade Americans' privacy. The Test Your ISP Project holds internet service providers accountable for covert traffic filtering. And Total Election Awareness (TEA) provides information to voters and rigorously tracks problems in United States elections.