CISPA -- The end of Internet privacy may be days away

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Dear friends,

Right now, corporations like Microsoft and Facebook are supporting a powerful new law that would allow the US to spy on almost everything we do online. But if enough of us speak out, we can demand that the corporations withdraw their support and stop the cyber-spying.

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 now:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_cispa_corporate_global/?vl

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/?vl

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/gl ... enemy-sopa

CISPA protests begin amid key changes to legislation (Los Angeles Times)
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la ... 4596.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/c ... ou-stop-it

New CISPA Draft Narrows Cybersecurity Language as Protests Loom (Mashable)
http://news.yahoo.com/cispa-draft-narro ... 02431.html

these psychos won't rest until they smash all freedom we have the internet

we'll be logging in with our government provided username and passwords before it is all over

for our own safety of course

So true. The sad part is it will inevitably happen eventually, but determined people will at least fight to keep it at bay as long as possible.

O.K. this will give the government boys a thrill a minute:

kill, bomb, burn, sabotage, White House, wreck, President, slay, destroy, attack, subvert.


The NSA computers will go into a loop picking up all this indicator words from one source.

ruveyn

hehe good one,

someone should include them in the comments sent to the local dhcp server,

all traffic would light up,.

I blame all of the idiots that trusted our tech to guys like Microsoft and Facebook.

Not everyone has the chance to be informed in the way they should be, though.

Monday is the day when the voting will take place - be sure to spread the word about this, quickly.

Well, it is like Christians and going to hell. If you didn't consciously decide towards Facebook and Microsoft, then I am fine with you. If you knew of alternatives and the repercussions of sticking with Microsoft or Apple anyway, then really, thanks for screwing technology.

it is very far from inevitable,

they simply want to stop direct democracy before they are put out of office.