This presentation is by a student from "Acting Up - Using Theater & Technology for Social Change," The DePaul School for New Learning. Tom Tresser, instructor.

2. Creative strategies and tactics to
achieve the mission of the
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Privacy, free speech, fair use, transparency,
and innovation in technology

3. Before I start, I want to ask a few questions.

4. Questions
• Do you want censorship on the internet?
• Would you be in favor of a REAL ID card that
would give government and businesses the
ability to easily read your private information
off the cards in myriad contexts?
• Would you like your Google or Yahoo search
engine results made public?
• Would you like employers, corporations, and
other sources to know your health history?

5. More questions about privacy
• Do you feel that certain governments can block
or tamper with domain names, filter and block
specific keywords, block a particular IP address,
or urge online content providers to remove
content or search results?
• Do you think that governments should be able to
listen in on cell phone calls, use voice recognition
to scan mobile networks, read emails and text
messages, censor web pages, track a citizen’s
every movement using GPS, and can even change
email contents while en route to a recipient?

6. If you answered no to at least one of these
questions, then you should be aware of
technology related privacy issues.
Representing the Electronic Frontier
Foundation (EFF), I want to show strategies in
this presentation so we can all keep
successfully defending all of our digital rights.

7. Core ideas
One of the tactics that I want to stress is the
teamwork, communication, and collaboration with
other companies, individuals, and organizations who
have significant web presence as tools when our rights
are in the process of being challenged. I would like to
make an example of such a process and how valuable
it can be in protecting our digital rights before
legislation is even able to gain steam in the Senate or
House of Representatives. Maintaining good
partnerships and creating working networks of
partners will be valuable to indentify these
infringements on our digital rights and then we will
have the ability to act quickly and efficiently.

8. (SOPA)
I want to touch on two recent cases that
hammer this point. One is the Stop Online
Piracy Act (SOPA). This act was proposed to "to
promote prosperity, creativity,
entrepreneurship, and innovation by combating
the theft of U.S. property, and for other
purposes." It is House Bill H.R. 3261, and while
this design description sounds lovely, the bill
itself will actually undermine all of what it sets
out to protect. Our company warned that
websites such as Flickr, Etsy and Vimeo would
all likely be shut down if the bill became law.

9. Many of you were made aware of this issue from
large banners presented on websites like
Wikipedia, Yahoo, Google, and others. It was
heavy hitters such as Google, Yahoo!, YouTube,
Facebook, Twitter, AOL, LinkedIn, eBay, Mozilla
Corporation, Mojang, Roblox, Riot Games, Epic
Games, Reddit, Wikipedia, and the Wikimedia
Foundation, as well as human rights
organizations such as Reporters Without Borders,
the ACLU, and Human Rights Watch who all came
together and defeated the bill.

10. Get involved
We must also get involved when we see acts
of an infringement of our digital rights. I will
explain the strategies I set forth in my final
paper, which can help in efficiently helping
those who need it.

11. Strategy Contact proper legal
authorities on issue
including our own legal
team
Write and publish
story and distribute
to our media outlets
(print, internet, mass
comm.)
Partner and network
with our clients and
Incident of make the issue aware
digital rights
infringement Raise awareness
through third-
party websites
(Facebook,
Youtube, etc)
Report the
issue to the
public on
our website

12. Future of the EFF
I want Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to continue
to empower us as speakers, citizens, creators, and
consumers. As our motto says, "when our freedoms in
the networked world come under attack, the
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the first line of
defense for defending free speech, privacy, innovation,
and consumer rights today. From the beginning, EFF
has championed the public interest in every critical
battle affecting digital rights. We will continue to use
the expertise of lawyers, policy analysts, activists, and
technologists, and remain a donor-funded nonprofit
organization.