Description: The government is spying on protesters, journalists, and millions of everyday people just like you and me. Contact Congress NOW to save Internet privacy.
The Trump Administration has been spying on the digital communications of Black Lives Matter protesters , journalists , and millions of Americans just like me and you. By labeling political activists “terrorists,” the government uses the PATRIOT Act to justify their invasive — and unconstitutional — surveillance. Congress is debating whether or not to renew the PATRIOT Act right now. Fill out the form below to tell your lawmakers: " Vote no on reauthorizing the PATRIOT Act and reject any attempt to spy on p
For years, government officials told the public that the PATRIOT Act was an important law that helped America’s intelligence agencies fight dangerous terrorists overseas. But they were lying to us. They were even lying to Congress. In reality, the PATRIOT Act was being used to secretly spy on hundreds of millions of people across the country. Telephone calls, text messages, internet activity … nearly every kind of digital communication was being collected.
Thankfully, an NSA contractor named Edward Snowden exposed the government’s secret surveillance programs to the public. The astonishing information he revealed led US courts to declare that much of the data collection being performed under the PATRIOT Act was illegal , and even unconstitutional . And when the government’s own internal oversight boards investigated these secret surveillance programs, they discovered that all of this spying never prevented a single terrorist attack. Not a single one!