Past winners have included World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, Ethernet inventor Robert Metcalfe, Linux icon Linus Torvalds and security expert Bruce Schneier.

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are due no later than midnight pacific time on Oct. 17. A ceremony will be held to celebrate the winners on Nov. 15 in San Francisco. 

The EFF, a nonprofit  founded in 1990, is focused on protecting digital rights. Of late, it has been involved in everything from to speaking out . 

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