So Red the Rose

CISPA vote THIS WEEK!

The Senate version of CISPA looks like it’ll be voted on later THIS WEEK. We need senators to OPPOSE the bill, but SUPPORT pro-privacy amendments to it.  

Please click here email your Senators right away.

But let’s highlight some good news: Our efforts to secure Internet freedom and privacy protections have largely worked — and frankly, far better than we’d expected.  Provisions have been added to:

• Keep the data in the hands of civilian agencies (as opposed to the National Security Agency); 
• Restrict the government’s use of the information to cyber security issues and the prevention of immediate physical harm;
• Require annual reporting on the data’s use; 
• Let Americans sue the government for abuse; and
• A clandestine attack on Net Neutrality has been removed.

Now these changes are under attack by pro-surveillance forces.  

Please click here to urge your senators to vote no on the cyber-security bill, and to help us protect privacy rights.

Via Demand Progress: 

http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/cyber_senate/?akid=1439.991103.rZzRU4&rd=1&t=2#1