In 1992 EFF presented our very first awards recognizing key leaders and organizations advancing innovation and championing civil liberties and human rights online. Now in 2025 we’re continuing to celebrate the accomplishments of people working toward a better future for everyone with the EFF Awards!
All are invited to attend the EFF Awards on Wednesday, September 10 at the San Francisco Design Center. Whether you’re an activist, an EFF supporter, a student interested in cyberlaw, or someone who wants to munch on a strolling dinner with other likeminded individuals, anyone can enjoy the ceremony!
GENERAL ADMISSION: $55 | CURRENT EFF MEMBERS: $45 | STUDENTS: $35
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 honored to present the three winners of this year’s EFF Awards: Just Futures Law, Erie Meyer, and Software Freedom Law Center, India. But, before we kick off the ceremony next week, let’s take a closer look at each of the honorees. First up—Just Futures Law, winner of the EFF Award for Leading Immigration and Surveillance Litigation:
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. 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 to fight for the release of detained individuals under Operation Lone Star.
We’re excited to celebrate Just Futures Law and the other EFF Award winners in person in San Francisco on September 10! We hope that you’ll join us there.
Thank you to Fastly, DuckDuckGo, Corellium, and No Starch Press for their year-round support of EFF’s mission.
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