EFF’s Petition to Reform the Electronic Communications Privacy Act

Owen Myles, Contributing Writer

The EFF has initiated a petition to reform the Electronic Communications Privacy Act which can be reviewed and signed HERE.

If you think a search warrant should be required for the perusal of your emails, cellphone data, Internet history, and private social-network information by law enforcement and other third parties, please visit the EFF and sign the petition today.

Many people remain unaware of the prolific privacy violations and profiling taking place in the digital world, especially since 9.11.2001. We are quickly entering a time where privacy faces extinction; fusion centers are appearing throughout the nation(pdf), the DHS has gone rogue, the NSA is filtering nearly the entirety of US communications, and the FBI has turned to activists and bloggers after failing to find terrorists conspiring under our beds.

The [s]Penta[nd]gon[e], CIA, and ~~parasitic~~ private contractors are blabbering about a “digital Pearl Harbor“, and “cyber 9/11“, and other [m]agencies are summoning extremist apparitions. Have we been conscripted by clowns to spend our lives corralled into a big, stupid, surveillance sideshow?

The pervasive authoritarian argument seems to be that our every personal affair must be extensively monitored to keep us safe from their morbid imaginations. Meanwhile, those who make the argument, work hard to conceal their own actions, all while chanting “transparency” in the darkness, and redacting all but the four letters in the FOIA.

Much of this scandalous activity persists due to an unaware and consenting public. For those who are aware, and for those who prefer to be treated fairly and remain innocent until otherwise proven in a court of law to be guilty of something(1), action is necessary. I hope you will take the time to sign the EFF’s petition today, and stand up for yourself and the rest of our nation.

See also: www.constitutioncampaign.org/blog/?p=1840 – NPR, Suspicionless Spying

*1. Don’t let them use their imaginations to do that. Send them back into the sewers to ferment with their ancestors.

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