John

One year ago, Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act expired, taking away one of the main weapons used by the FBI and NSA to spy on people all over America. But now some lawmakers and unelected bureaucrats are trying to bring back this invasive law to let the government read our emails, collect our phone records, and perform warrantless surveillance on us.¹ We can’t let that happen.

Sign the petition telling Congress to protect our privacy and stop spying on people in America.

For years, intelligence officials and law enforcement agents abused Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act to illegally collect data on millions of people across the country.² They claimed that this surveillance was necessary to keep us safe from terrorism, but the government’s own internal records show that this invasive surveillance program never helped stop a single terrorist attack.³

Security experts and human rights experts agree that destroying encryption makes us all more vulnerable to malicious hackers, authoritarianism, and other serious threats.⁴ So let’s make sure Congress knows how we feel about the government’s spying programs.

Tell your lawmakers to leave the PATRIOT Act in the past and put an end to warrantless government surveillance.

Best,

Dayton

[1] Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/capitol-riot-domestic-terror-legislation/2021/02/04/f43ec214-6733-11eb-8468-21bc48f07fe5_story.html

[2] ACLU

https://www.aclu.org/other/surveillance-under-usapatriot-act

[3] Office of the White House

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/2013-12-12_rg_final_report.pdf

[4] Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School

http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2019/11/banning-strong-encryption-does-not-mean-catching-criminals-it-only-makes-you-less-safe

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