Protect Our Encryption!

October 8, 2015

There is a petition on whitehouse.gov asking the president to support strong encryption: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov//petition/publicly-affirm-your-support-strong-encryption
This is an important issue for those who value their privacy, and is approximately 50% to the 100,000 goal needed for a presidentail response.
GetFISARight has a history with these petitions; in our first days, we joined with other groups to reach #5 in the Ideas for Change—scroll down (or use the month menu in the right column) to revisit our glory days—let’s do it again!
These issues still matter—maybe more than ever, with the TPP and related trade agreements being negotiated—so let’s do what we can to push this over the top by the Oct. 30 deadline!

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On to the second round of “Ideas for Change in America”!

January 2, 2009

Update, January 3: Facebook and MyBO events are up;
please accept and forward!

Happy new year!

My idea Get FISA Right, repeal the PATRIOT Act, and restore our civil liberties finished #2 in the Criminal Justice category of change.org/MySpace’s Ideas for Change in America competition, and so has advanced to the second round.

We can revise the idea over the next couple of days (suggestions please!) and then second-round voting runs from January 5 to January 15.  We’ll be promoting it actively, of course.  There’ll be a press conference on January 16 to introduce the top 10, change.org will work with each of them to help build and promote national advocacy campaigns. With change.org’s 200,000 members, proven ability to attack media attention, and a great list of partners for Ideas for Change in America, it’s a great opportunity …

And some really tough competition.

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