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EFF announces major new EU focus and two amazing new hires
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has just hired two new staffers focused on the EU: Icelandic poet, artist, and free expression activist Birgitta Jnsdttir, and European Internet policy expert Christoph Schmon.
They each have different areas of expertise and different kinds of projects, but in general they'll be working to ensure that the major new online policies in the EU take account of human rights like privacy and free expression and that they don't inadvertently create situations guaranteeing the dominance of big US tech companies (say, by enacting rules that only the largest companies can afford to comply with, driving smaller, EU-based companies out of business).
I've known Birgitta for years, and met Christoph recently, and both of them are hugely impressive, talented, knowledgeable activists. I was EFF's first-ever EU staffer, and I'm so excited to watch this process unfold!
Read the restBirgitta Jonsdottir, EFFs first Internet Archive Fellow, will be working across Europe as an advocate for the public interest Internet, focusing on protecting and balancing online speech, privacy, and innovation. In her years of activism in Icelands Parliament for the parties she co-founded, the Civic Movement and Pirate Party in Iceland, she championed for democracy in the digital era, with special focus on making Iceland into a digital safe haven for freedom of expression, freedom of information and speech and the right to privacy both online and off. Birgittas role is financially supported by one of the strongest examples of the public interest Internet: the Internet Archive, the non-profit digital library that aims to provide universal access to all knowledge.
Digital rights are human rights.
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