EFF Equivalent in the EU?

jregel asks: "In the US, the Electronic Frontier Foundation works to protect digital rights on the Internet. I live in the UK, and would like to give money to a similar organization that will fight for my rights. Is there an EFF equivalent for those of us in the EU?"

Re:EFF Europe

[O]

EFF europe [fsfeurope.org]

Dude, I think you got a little confused. EFF != FSF

Some related links

[KieranElby]

While there does not appear to be a direct equivalent of the EFF in the UK/EU, one organisation that springs to mind is Statewatch [statewatch.org], which is dedicated to monitoring civil liberties (including electronic) in the EU.

Hopefully organisations like these will stop abuses of power such as the EU Telecommunications Directive (news story ZDNET [zdnet.co.uk]) which calls for ISP and Telecomms to retain communication records for 7 (yes, seven) years.

Some people are also rather annoyed with Echelon, the Menrith Hill based UK-US monitoring centre which listens to some/many/all (depending on who you talk to!) calls and email within the UK. Personally, I have a soft spot for it, since it really annoys the French: ZDNET story [zdnet.com]

On a semi-related note, the Campaign for FOI [cfoi.org.uk] is campaiging for more open access to information in the UK.

On an insane note, these people Project Freedom [cng1.com] are determined to expose MI5/MI6/CIA use of mind control on socialists and other undesirables...

EuroRights

[arafel]

Currently fighting (amongst other things) the EUCD - European equivalent of the DMCA - and the corrupt-CD crap.

The UK branch seems to be more active than the others at present - http://uk.eurorights.org/ [eurorights.org]

US laws migrate elsewhere

[Rural]

Considering U.S. laws find their way into the books of other countries, supporting the EFF in the U.S. ultimately helps everyone.

I live in Europe, so it's not like I don't care what happens here.

Electronic Frontier Finland

[Turmio]

As a UK citizen this won't probably help you much, but here in Finland we have had Electronic Frontier Finland [effi.org] since last autumn. Unfortunately at the moment EFFi's web page is only in Finnish. Anyway, if you're located in Finland, I highly recommend joining the organization.

Ok, given that one doesn't exist ...

[tomcounsell]

Any enthusiasm to start one for the UK ?