We are calling on Congress to take immediate action to halt this surveillance and provide a full public accounting of the NSA’s and the FBI’s data collection programs. We call on Congress to immediately and publicly: 1. Enact reform this Congress to Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act, the state secrets privilege, and the FISA Amendments Act to make clear that blanket surveillance of the Internet activity and phone records of any person residing in the U.S. is prohibited by law and that violations can be reviewed in adversarial proceedings before a public court; 2. Create a special committee to investigate, report, and reveal to the public the extent of this domestic spying. This committee should create specific recommendations for legal and regulatory reform to end unconstitutional surveillance; 3. Hold accountable those public officials who are found to be responsible for this unconstitutional surveillance. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Sincerely, Access Advocacy for Principled Action in Government American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression American Civil Liberties Union American Civil Liberties Union of California American Library Association Amicus Association of Research Libraries Bill of Rights Defense Committee BoingBoing Breadpig Calyx Institute Canvas Center for Democracy and Technology Center for Digital Democracy Center for Financial Privacy and Human Rights Center for Media and Democracy Center for Media Justice Competitive Enterprise Institute Consumer Action Consumer Watchdog CorpWatch CREDO Mobile Cyber Privacy Project Daily Kos Defending Dissent Foundation Demand Progress Detroit Digital Justice Coalition Digital Fourth Downsize DC DuckDuckGo Electronic Frontier Foundation Entertainment Consumers Association Fight for the Future Floor64 Foundation for Innovation and Internet Freedom 4Chan Free Press Free Software Foundation Freedom of the Press Foundation FreedomWorks Friends of Privacy USA Get FISA Right Government Accountability Project Greenpeace USA Institute of Popular Education of Southern California (IDEPSCA) Internet Archive isen, LLC Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) Law Life Culture Liberty Coalition May First/People Link Media Alliance Media Mobilizing Project, Philadelphia Mozilla Namecheap National Coalition Against Censorship New Sanctuary Coalition of NYC Open Technology Institute OpenMedia.org Participatory Politics Foundation Patient Privacy Rights People for the American Way Personal Democracy Media PolitiHacks Privacy and Access Council of Canada Public Interest Advocacy Centre (Ottawa, Canada) Public Knowledge Privacy Activism Privacy Camp Privacy Rights Clearinghouse Privacy Times reddit Represent.us Rights Working Group Rocky Mountain Civil Liberties Association RootsAction.org Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic Sunlight Foundation Taxpayers Protection Alliance TechFreedom The AIDS Policy Project, Philadelphia TURN-The Utility Reform Network Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center William C. Velasquez Institute (WCVI) World Wide Web Foundation
Posted on: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:59:06 +0000
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