EFF generally refers to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (hereinafter referred to as EFF) is a non-profit international legal organization founded in 1990. The founders include Mitch Kapor (President of Lotus), John Perry Barlow (a ranch in Wyoming)

(owner) and John Gilmore (an early employee of Sun), headquartered in San Francisco, USA, and also has offices in Toronto and Brussels. At the same time, EFF is also one of the observers of the World Intellectual Property Organization.

Origin The founding of the Electronic Frontier Foundation originated from the Steve Jackson Games incident in 1990.

Steve Jackson Games is a game company founded by Steve Jackson in Texas, USA.

On March 1, 1990, the company was suddenly raided by the US Secret Service. The company's computers and other electronic equipment were taken away by the raiders, and the reasons for the raid changed several times.

The reason that was first announced was that Secret Service experts regarded a game manual of the company "GURPS Cyberpunk" as a manual on how to use computers to commit crimes. It was not until the Secret Service's search warrant application was released in 1991 that people discovered it.

The real motive for the Secret Service's search was suspicion that Steve Jackson Games was guilty of committing a crime by remote association (Guilt by Remote Association).