Geeklawyer was present at the birth of ORG, the UK EFF, a cou­ple of years ago. To his joy she has reached the ter­ri­ble two’s and is behav­ing dis­grace­fully by kick­ing and scream­ing in pub­lic in all the wrong places: Par­lia­ment the Media and in pub­lic forums everywhere.

Jolly good job too. As it’s 2007 report shows it has more than lived up to its promise and done some mag­nif­i­cent work for such a new and min­i­mally funded organ­i­sa­tion. For exam­ple so far it has influ­enced the Gower report, helped shine an unwel­come spot­light on the farce of e-voting in the UK and coun­ter­bal­anced the gross dis­sem­bling of the shadier parts of the copy­right indus­try. It’s now a cen­tral media resource for jour­nal­ists need­ing more bal­ance in their reports — some­thing des­per­ately needed.
These are all rea­sons to get involved since ORG needs reg­u­lar finan­cial con­tri­bu­tions from mem­bers (and the Joseph Rown­tree Trust will match every pound raised from mem­ber­ship). If you signed the pledge in 2005 and haven’t cracked open your dusty wal­let then now is the time to do so; if you aren’t yet a mem­ber but you want to pro­tect your dig­i­tal lib­er­ties join now!