Dear friends,
Right now, the US is poised to pass a new law that would permit US agents to
spy on almost everything we do online. But we can stop them before the final
vote.
Companies that we trust with our personal information, like Microsoft and
Facebook, are key supporters of this bill that lets corporations share all user
activity and content with US government agents without needing a warrant in the
name of cyber-security -- nullifying privacy guarantees for almost everyone
around the world, no matter where we live and surf online.
If enough of us speak out, we can stop companies that profit from our business
from supporting cyber-spying. Sign the petition to these key net corporations:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_cispa_corporate_global/?tta
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) would allow companies
doing business in the US to collect exact records of all of our online
activities and hand them over to the US government, without ever notifying us
that we are being watched. No warrant, no legal cause and no due process
required. To make matters worse, the bill provides the government and
corporations with blanket immunity to protect them from being sued for
violation of privacy and other illegal actions.
The bill’s supporters claim that consumer information will be protected, but
the reality is that huge loopholes would make everything we do online fair game
-- and nowadays, from banking to shopping, our private information is all
stored on the Internet.
CISPA is being moved forward in Congress and will be voted upon in days. Let’s
raise a massive outcry to stop corporations from giving the US a blank check to
monitor our every move. Click below to take action:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_cispa_corporate_global/?tta
This year, we helped stop SOPA, PIPA and ACTA -- all dire threats to the
Internet. Now, let’s block CISPA and end the US government attack on our
Internet.
WIth hope and determination,
Dalia, Allison, Emma, Ricken, Rewan, Andrew, Wen-Hua, and the rest of the Avaaz
team
More information:
CISPA: The internet finds a new enemy (Global Post)
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/the-grid/cispa-the-internet-finds-new-enemy-sopa
CISPA protests begin amid key changes to legislation (Los Angeles Times)
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-cispa-protests-begin-amid-key-changes-to-legislation-20120416,0,5314596.story
Cybersecurity Bill FAQ: The Disturbing Privacy Dangers in CISPA and How To Stop
It (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/04/cybersecurity-bill-faq-disturbing-privacy-dangers-cispa-and-how-you-stop-it
New CISPA Draft Narrows Cybersecurity Language as Protests Loom (Mashable)
http://news.yahoo.com/cispa-draft-narrows-cybersecurity-language-protests-loom-134202431.html
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