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Dear Friend,
A month ago, Demand Progress members rallied to stop Congress from handing Trump the authority to look at American citizens' internet browsing histories without a search warrant.
Now Mitch McConnell is trying to use an obscure Senate rule to pass the bill anyway.1 He thinks that with the media focused on the pandemic and police brutality, he can sneak authorization through for Trump's internet spying.
No such luck, Mitch. We’re not going to let the Trump administration invade Americans’ privacy without a fight.
Will you donate to stop the government from spying on activists' internet history without a warrant?
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Trump has activated the DEA and FBI against activists. He has asked to use “overwhelming military force” to take them down.
And he's using the vast surveillance network at his fingertips to target and harass protestors by collecting information about them to use against them later.
If the Senate sneaks through its Patriot Act renewal, the Trump administration will be able to see our most private internet history with no one holding it accountable.
This isn’t the first time Trump has tried to use surveillance power against protesters. The DOJ has already tried to collect IP addresses of people who visited websites that were planning protests at the inauguration.2
We already won a major battle against the Patriot Act when we insisted on language banning these warrantless searches—language that caused the House to shelve the bill altogether back in March. The more people hear about the outrageous surveillance powers in the reauthorization, the more unpopular it becomes.
We need to publicize the Senate’s attempt to reauthorize the Trump administration's warrantless web searches. Will you donate to help protect our internet privacy?
Yes, I'll donate to help stop warrantless spying on our internet history without a warrant.
For our democracy,
Robert Cruickshank,
Demand Progress
Sources:
1. Politico, "Republicans struggle to pin down Trump on spying powers," June 4, 2020
2. The Guardian, "US government demands details on all visitors to anti-Trump protest website," August 15, 2017
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