Hi,

As early as Wednesday, the Senate will vote on a dangerous expansion of
mass surveillance called the “Make Everyone A Spy” provision. What?

In the fight over the reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (FISA), the heads of the House Intelligence Committee
snuck through an amendment that would allow the federal government to
secretly compel millions of Americans to facilitate warrantless spying,
including providing direct access to communications networks. This would
cover cleaners, janitors, and even security guards. They’d have no choice,
they wouldn’t be able to say anything, and this would destroy the trust we
all put in them.

Congress shouldn’t be EXPANDING warrantless surveillance in America, and
it definitely shouldn’t be throwing everyday Americans further into the
fray of a completely out-of-control system of spying.

[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition: Urge the Senate to block the “Make Everyone A Spy”
provision before this week’s vote!

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The House already passed this dangerous provision after deceptive tactics
by the heads of the House Intelligence Committee, Mike Turner and Jim
Himes.^1

Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is already
abused by the government to spy on Americans by collecting and searching
through international communications without a warrant. The data broker
loophole allows government agencies and law enforcement to buy location
information about us from private companies, including Elon Musk’s
Twitter/X. But instead of fixing any of that, the House passed special
privacy protections only for themselves.

Worse, lawmakers want to go one step further and make everyone a spy
whenever they want, without so much as court approval.

The House Intelligence Committee’s tactics to pass the “Make Everyone A
Spy” provision add up to a brazen and deliberate attempt to sneak through
one of the most terrifying expansions in the history of government
surveillance. This is not speculative: the amendment clearly allows the
government to secretly conscript uninvolved Americans and American
businesses to spy on each other’s communication networks.

The Senate is our last chance to stop this dangerous expansion of
warrantless government mass surveillance.

[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition: Urge the Senate to vote down the “Make Everyone A
Spy” provision!

Thanks for taking action,

Joey and the team at Demand Progress

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Sources:

 1. Common Dreams, “House Dems, GOP Team Up to Expand Warrantless Spying
on Americans,” [ [link removed] ]April 12, 2024.
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