EFF Announces 2025 Award Winners

Just Futures Law, Erie Meyer, and Software Freedom Law Center, India to be honored at September event.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has announced the recipients of its 2025 EFF Awards, recognizing leaders who are defending digital freedoms. The honorees include Just Futures Law, Erie Meyer, and the Software Freedom Law Center, India.

The awards ceremony will take place on Friday, September 12, 2025, in San Francisco. Those interested in attending can register online. General admission is $55, with discounted rates for EFF members ($45) and students ($35).

The event will feature a strolling dinner, desserts, and a hosted bar with a variety of beverages, including vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free options. Attendees are encouraged to wear EFF hoodies or formal attire.

A livestream of the event will be available on September 12th, and the recording will be posted to YouTube and the Internet Archive.

award Winners

The 2025 EFF Award winners are:

• JUST FUTURES LAW – For Leading Immigration and Surveillance Litigation
• ERIE MEYER – For Protecting Americans’ Data
• SOFTWARE FREEDOM LAW CENTER, INDIA – For defending Digital Freedoms

“DOGE is burning the house down and calling it a renovation.”

More About the 2025 EFF Award Winners

Just Futures Law

Just Futures law is a women-of-color-led law project focused on the disproportionate impact of surveillance on immigrants and people of color in the United States. It uses litigation to defend and build the power of immigrant rights and criminal justice activists, organizers, and community groups to prevent criminalization, detention, and deportation. Founded in 2019, just Futures Law employs a movement lawyering and racial justice framework to transform how legal support serves communities and builds movement power.

In the past year, Just Futures Law sued the Department of Homeland Security seeking records on their use of AI and other algorithms, and sued the Trump Administration for halting Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status. It has represented activists against tech giants like Clearview AI, worked with Meente to launch the TakeBackTech fellowship, and collaborated with Grassroots Leadership to fight for the release of detained individuals under Operation Lone Star.

Erie Meyer

Erie Meyer is a Senior Fellow at the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator, focusing on the intersection of technology, artificial intelligence, and regulation, and a Senior Fellow at the Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy. She is the former Chief technologist at both the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Federal Trade Commission. Earlier, she was senior advisor to the U.S. Chief Technology Officer at the White House, where she co-founded the United States Digital Service. Meyer also worked as senior director at Code for America and in the Ohio Attorney General’s office.

As January 20, Meyer has organized former government technologists to advocate for the privacy and integrity of governmental systems that hold Americans’ data. She filed a declaration in federal court in February warning that critical records could be lost in the CFPB’s purge by the Trump Administration’s Department of Government Efficiency. In April, she filed a declaration in another case warning about using private-sector AI on government information. That same month, she testified to the House Oversight Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation about the centralization of sensitive data by DOGE.

Software Freedom Law Center, India

Software Freedom Law Center, India is a donor-supported legal services organization based in India that protects freedom in the digital world. It promotes innovation and open access to knowledge by helping developers create free and open-source software,protects privacy and civil liberties,and helps policymakers make informed decisions about technology.

Founded in 2010 by technology lawyer and online civil liberties activist Mishi choudhary, SFLC.IN tracks and participates in litigation, AI regulations, and free speech issues. It also tracks internet shutdowns and censorship incidents across India, provides digital security training, and has launched the Digital Defenders network. It has conducted landmark litigation cases, petitioned the government on freedom of expression, and campaigned for WhatsApp and Facebook to fix a feature used to harass women in India.