UPDATE: EFF’s Tell the U.S. Senate: STOP RISAA, the FISA Mass Surveillance Expansion makes it easy to contact your Senators.
The Senate is likely to vote Wednesday on RISAA, the FISA Section 702 reauthorization bill the House passed last week. The more people have looked at RISAA the worse it looks — Privacy Advocates Ramp Up Effort to Stop Spying Expansion and the letter from a colaition of 75+ privacy, civil liberties, and civil rights groups have details.
Senator Ron Wyden says RISAA “represents one of the most dramatic and terrifying expansions of government surveillance authority in history.” One especially big problem with this House bill is what privacy organizations call the “Everyone Is A Spy” provision, which gives the government unchecked authority to order millions of Americans to spy on behalf of the government – which would also help Trump crack down on the media
Wyden and Senator Mike Lee are leading a bipartisan coalition of privacy advocates trying to stop the Senate from passing the House bill — see the end of the article for a video of Sen. Wyden’s powerful speech. So now’s a great time to contact the Senate. You can either use EFF’s form, call the Congressional switchboard at (202) 224-3121 or use the Senate directory to look up your legislators’ contact info. Here’s a short script:
“Please OPPOSE the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act (RISAA), H.R.7888, which would dramatically expand the government’s warrantless surveillance powers – and any other FISA Section 702 reauthorization including the “Everyone Is A Spy” provision that gives the government unchecked authority to order millions of Americans to spy on behalf of the government.”
Here’s a video of Sen Wyden’s speech — or if you prefer text, here’s the transcript
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