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For over 35 years, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has presented awards recognizing key leaders and organizations advancing innovation and championing digital rights. The EFF Awards celebrate the accomplishments of people working toward a better future for technology users, both in the public eye and behind the scenes. EFF is pleased to welcome all members of the digital rights community, supporters, and friends to this annual award ceremony. Join us to celebrate this year's honorees with drinks, bytes, and excellent company. EFF Award Ceremony Wednesday, September 10th, 2025 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM Pacific San Francisco Design Center Galleria 101 Henry Adams Street, San Francisco, CA Register Now General Admission: $55 | Current EFF Members: $45 | Students: $35 The celebration will include a strolling dinner and desserts, as well as a hosted bar with cocktails, mocktails, wine, beer, and non-alcoholic beverages! Vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free food options will be available. We hope to see you in person, wearing either a signature EFF hoodie, or something formal if you're excited for the opportunity to dress up! If you're not able to make it, we'll also be hosting a livestream of the event on Friday, September 12 at 12:00 PM PT. The event will also be recorded, and posted to YouTube and the Internet Archive after the livestream. We are proud to present awards to this year's winners: JUST FUTURES LAW EFF Award for Leading Immigration and Surveillance Litigation ERIE MEYER EFF Award for Protecting Americans' Data SOFTWARE FREEDOM LAW CENTER, INDIA EFF Award for Defending Digital Freedoms More About the 2025 EFF Award Winners Just Futures Law Just Futures Law is a women-of-color-led law project that recognizes how surveillance disproportionately impacts immigrants and people of color in the United States. It uses litigation to fight back as part of defending and building the power of immigrant rights and criminal justice activists, organizers, and community groups to prevent criminalization, detention, and deportation of immigrants and people of color. Just Futures was founded in 2019 using a movement lawyering and racial justice framework and seeks to transform how litigation and legal support serves communities and builds movement power. In the past year, Just Futures sued the Department of Homeland Security and its subagencies seeking a court order to compel the agencies to release records on their use of AI and other algorithms, and sued the Trump Administration for prematurely halting Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status, a humanitarian program that allows hundreds of thousands of Haitians to temporarily remain and work in the United States due to Haiti’s current conditions of extraordinary crises. It has represented activists in their fight against tech giants like Clearview AI, it has worked with Mijente to launch the TakeBackTech fellowship to train new advocates on grassroots-directed research, and it has worked with Grassroots Leadership
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