The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today withdrew from the Global Network Initiative (GNI), citing a fundamental breakdown in confidence that the group's corporate members are able to speak freely about their own internal privacy and security systems in the wake of the National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance revelations. EFF has been a civil society member of the multi-stakeholder human rights group since GNI was founded in 2008 to advance freedom of expression and privacy in the global information and communication technologies sector. While much has been accomplished...EFF can no longer sign its name...knowing now that GNI's corporate members have been blocked from sharing crucial information about how the US government has meddled with these companies' security practices... [refers to Google, Microsoft, Yahoo]