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    86 Civil Liberties Groups and Internet Companies Demand an End to NSA Spying

    June 12, 20136 Mins Read
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    (There is more, include our site on that list) A coalition of 86 civil liberties organizations and Internet companies – including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, reddit, Mozilla, FreedomWorks, and the American Civil Liberties Union – are demanding swift action from Congress in light of the recent revelations about unchecked domestic surveillance.

    In an open letter to lawmakers sent today, the groups call for a congressional investigatory committee, similar to the Church Committee of the 1970s. The letter also demands legal reforms to rein in domestic spying and demands that public officials responsible for this illegal surveillance are held accountable for their actions.

    The letter denounces the NSA’s spying program as illegal, noting:

    This type of blanket data collection by the government strikes at bedrock American values of freedom and privacy. This dragnet surveillance violates the First and Fourth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, which protect citizens’ right to speak and associate anonymously and guard against unreasonable searches and seizures that protect their right to privacy.

    The letter was accompanied by the launch of StopWatching.us, a global petition calling on Congress to provide a public accounting of the United States’ domestic spying capabilites and to bring an end to illegal surveillance.

    The groups call for a number of specific legal reforms, including reform to the controversial Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act, the “business records” section which, through secret court orders, was misused to force Verizon to provide the NSA with detailed phone records of millions of customers. The groups also call on Congress to reform the FISA Amendment Act, the unconstitutional law that allows, nearly without restriction, the government to conduct mass surveillance on American and international communications. The letter and petition also demand that Congress amend the state secrets privilege, the legal tool that has expanded over the last 10 years to prevent the government from being held accountable for domestic surveillance.

    As Mark Rumold, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation who focuses on government transparency and national security, says, “Now is the time for Congress to act. We don’t need a narrow fix to one part of the PATRIOT Act; we need a full public accounting of how the United States is turning sophisticated spying technology on its own citizens, we need accountability from public officials, and we need an overhaul of the laws to ensure these abuses can never happen again.”

    The Electronic Frontier Foundation is urging concerned netizens to join this campaign by signing their names to StopWatching.us.

    Full text of the open letter:

    Dear Members of Congress,

    We write to express our concern about recent reports published in the Guardian and the Washington Post, and acknowledged by the Obama Administration, which reveal secret spying by the National Security Agency (NSA) on phone records and Internet activity of people in the United States.

    The Washington Post and the Guardian recently published reports based on information provided by a career intelligence officer showing how the NSA and the FBI are gaining broad access to data collected by nine of the leading U.S. Internet companies and sharing this information with foreign governments. As reported, the U.S. government is extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person’s movements and contacts over time. As a result, the contents of communications of people both abroad and in the U.S. can be swept in without any suspicion of crime or association with a terrorist organization.

    Leaked reports also published by the Guardian and confirmed by the Administration reveal that the NSA is also abusing a controversial section of the PATRIOT Act to collect the call records of millions of Verizon customers. The data collected by the NSA includes every call made, the time of the call, the duration of the call, and other “identifying information” for millions of Verizon customers, including entirely domestic calls, regardless of whether those customers have ever been suspected of a crime. The Wall Street Journal has reported that other major carriers, including AT&T and Sprint, are subject to similar secret orders.

    This type of blanket data collection by the government strikes at bedrock American values of freedom and privacy. This dragnet surveillance violates the First and Fourth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, which protect citizens’ right to speak and associate anonymously and guard against unreasonable searches and seizures that protect their right to privacy.

    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.com, 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

    Big Brother Civil Liberties Companies Computer Demand Internet NSA PRISM Spying Stop
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