5 ms·

Thank you for the historical context of point (3), it gives a lot of colour to the situation. Other replies to your comment have pointed out that the actions o

• schoen 10y ago
  The question of whom EFF's legal work is against is a little bit complicated because EFF undertakes direct representation as well as writing amicus briefs (and also sometimes counsels people in situations that don't lead to a court case). If we look at https://www.eff.org/cases https://www.eff.org/cases there seem to be 296 matters mentioned (which isn't exactly all of EFF's casework for various reasons; for example, some cases may predate the existence of that page, some matters mentioned there may encompass multiple court cases, and some cases may be under seal). It would take a while to classify all of them, and it's not a good idea to just take a sample of the first n cases in alphabetical order (for example, because criminal cases are captioned U.S. v. Somebody). I did a random sort of the cases there and went through the first 50 of them, and I classified them as 18 government, 30 private, and 2 other (not clearly referring to an individual court case). It's also interesting to note that in two of the cases in my sample, EFF was defending (or not opposing) the government's position. To summarize, I think EFF's legal work more often involves private parties than the government, at least by number of court cases (not necessarily by number of attorney hours or pages of briefing!). The same might not be true of ACLU's work.