Join EFF at the 17th Annual Pioneer Awards at ETech

Electronic Frontier Foundation Media Release

For Immediate Release: Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Contact:

Rebecca Jeschke
   Media Coordinator
   Electronic Frontier Foundation
   press@eff.org
   +1 415 436-9333 x125

Join EFF at the 17th Annual Pioneer Awards at ETech

Ceremony in San Diego Honors Mitchell Baker and the Mozilla
Foundation, Michael Geist, and Mark Klein

San Diego - Please join the Electronic Frontier Foundation
(EFF) for the 17th Annual Pioneer Awards, presented in
conjunction with the O'Reilly Emerging Technology
Conference in San Diego. The ceremony will be held at 7:15
p.m., March 4th, in the Marina Ballroom of the San Diego
Marriott Hotel and Marina.

The 2008 winners of EFF's Pioneer Awards are the Mozilla
Foundation and its Chairman Mitchell Baker, University of
Ottawa Professor Michael Geist, and AT&T whistleblower Mark
Klein.  Michael Robertson -- founder and CEO of MP3.com,
Linspire, MP3Tunes and Gizmo5 -- will give the awards'
keynote address: "What to Expect When You're Expecting...To
Be Sued."

TCHO, a new chocolate company and a Platinum Sponsor for
the 2008 Pioneer Awards ceremony, will sample a "beta
release" of their dark chocolate during the event.
Attendees will be invited to taste two different formulas
and vote for their favorite.

To get on the press list for this event, email
press@eff.org.

WHAT:
17th Annual Pioneer Awards

WHEN:
7:15 p.m.
Tuesday, March 4

WHERE:
San Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina Marina Ballroom
333 West Harbor Drive
San Diego, CA  92101

For more on EFF's Pioneer Awards:
http://www.eff.org/awards/pioneer


About EFF

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading civil
liberties organization working to protect rights in the
digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF actively encourages and
challenges industry and government to support free
expression and privacy online. EFF is a member-supported
organization and maintains one of the most linked-to
websites in the world at http://www.eff.org/

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