>EFF's mission is to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world.

The EFF's mission statement supports them prioritizing freedom and innovation over privacy.

Are you claiming that privacy can never be a prerequisite for freedom and/or justice?

It's trivially easy to see cases where freedom+justice+innovation can conflict with each other (it's even trivially easy to see where they can conflict with each other specifically for innovations involving the reduction of privacy, ye olde panopticon.)

So it's also trivially simple to understand that at some point you're gonna have to pick one over another. And note that freedom is the first word in that list.

As far as I know, EFF has always championed privacy.