Controversial immigration reform group has greater financial transparency than EFF

Despite a board of directors that includes prominent information technologists such as Brewster “Internet Archive” Kahle, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a San Francisco-based nonprofit founded in 1990 that defends the digital rights of consumers, probably will not be winning any digital rights awards for financial disclosure and transparency (D&T) in the near future. Here’s an update to EFF’s digital commitment to D&T, for all of you consumers who are recording the numbers at home:

• 2008-2009 Annual Report

• 2007 Annual Report

• 2006 Annual Report

Contrast that with these documents, all posted on the website of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), a controversial national non-profit organization based in Washington that seeks to reform United States immigration policies:

• 2008 Annual Report and IRS Form 990

• 2007 Annual Report and IRS Form 990

• 2006 Annual Report and IRS Form 990

• 2005 Annual Report and IRS Form 990

• 2004 Annual Report and IRS Form 990

• 2003 Annual Report

• 2002 Annual Report

• 2001 Annual Report

Memo to Brewster Kahle: The Internet Archive has a copy of Rules and Regulations of the Insane Asylum of California (1861) but doesn’t have a copy of EFF’s 2001 Annual Report?