The Electronic Frontier Alliance has officially ended. In a brief statement on efa.eff.org, the Electronic Frontier Foundation stated that the EFA "concluded on November 20, 2025."
I’d say it seemed to me like the EFA has not gotten the attention it needed for many years now,* but in today’s digital landscape this sort of alliance is needed more than ever. Privacy Guides is always considering ways that we can support fellow like-minded organizations and advance digital rights advocacy. If you’re a local organizer interested in this as well, let me know!
* This is purely as an outsider. They might’ve been doing a lot behind the scenes for their affiliated local orgs, but in terms of reaching out to new people or making more public resources about the EFA it seemed a bit abandoned.
Sad, and odd. Cory Doctorow has been talking about it during his press tour for his new book Enshittification. I’m surprised he didn’t know this was coming. And if he truly didn’t, this seems like a decision made on a whim which is even more surprising. Not sure what’s happening inside EFF then.
It seems very abrupt. I just randomly noticed as I was browsing EFF-Austin’s site tonight and clicked their link. Even though I guess this change happened 2 days ago I had to quick write this up because I couldn’t find another soul talking about it anywhere.
I know some people at EFF-Austin (in addition to @nateb who’s on their board) I’m going to ask about it, but it’s the middle of the night now, so I’ll have to wait for updates. I’m really curious about whether the EFF gave notice to any EFA members like them privately.
Hmm.
Yes, an update would be nice to have to shed light on what’s what and even why if possible.
I haven’t heard anything, but Kevin W (our president) usually handles the EFA stuff directly. We have a board meeting today, I’m sure it’ll come up. If I learn anything useful, I’ll share here.
An EFA member forwarded me an email they said they received on or around the 12th, and Rory from the EFF connected with me on Signal, so I should have more updates to share soon as well.
Hello! We were actually in the process of writing a blog post about being two months into starting a new group when we also noticed that the EFA as a program was closed. We were trying to be consistent enough as a club to be able to join. 
Once I saw that the EFA was shuttered, I immediately thought that Privacy Guides would be a great candidate for continuing what the EFA was trying to do. At the very least, I think it would be valuable to replicate their directory so that people who want to get involved in the activism side of things know where is the closest group to them.
As I said, we’re a very new club, but we’ve learned a lot about how to start up and I hope to share some of those learnings with this community over time. With how 2025 has gone for the state of digital privacy, we need as many people getting involved as we can get.
I’m open to sharing thoughts on what an advocacy network could look like under Privacy Guides, but I’m sure @nateb and EFF-Austin could provide a much better plan for something new.
Very cool! Yes, I’d love to connect with you sometime and hear what makes sense to you. I know some of our team has been brainstorming ideas along these lines for a few months now, but no set plans yet.
This article was just updated with some additional details.
Sure thing, happy to chat whenever!
From the sounds of the update from the EFF and how they will be doing a new program called EFF-Allies, I think we can wait to see what that looks like in the new year. However, if the directory remains out of scope for that program than I think it would be valuable to recreate that somewhere else, whether it’s here or in another space. The tools and networking are important, but when it comes to collective action that addresses more than just the national headlines, people need to get connected locally.
If I had to sum up the ask, it would be to recreate the directory and requirements. I can’t get to the page for how to join, but I think the requirements were:
If you meet those requirements then you can be listed on the directory.
There is probably more to flesh out, but that’s what it was from what I remember. Also, we never got to the application step so there was probably more to it than that. 