Despite having been decisively rejected by the people and Congress, the Cyber Information Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) is back in the House of Representatives, once again up for a vote with supporters hoping that the people are no longer paying attention.
Now is the time to take action to let them know you don’t want the government and big businesses accessing and sharing your email and personal data without any kind of warrant or due process of law.
CISPA (HR624) would massively reduce the privacy and security of your online communications and personal data. It would give government agencies and many private companies access to your personal communications and financial information and would allow government security agencies like the National Security Agency unprecedented power to access your data including medical records, private emails and financial information – all without a warrant, oversight by any court or due process of law. It is supported by government security agencies like the Department of Homeland Security and also by big online data companies like Google and Facebook which want to use your data for marketing with fewer restrictions.
This access to your records would require no misbehavior on your part, not even an accusation of terrorism or criminal activity and it would take place without your knowledge or permission or any opportunity to protect your information or your privacy interests. That information could then be passed on to private companies or other agencies or used against you with no real rules or restrictions on who could access it or what hands it would end up in.
The Republican Liberty Caucus joins with other concerned groups like the Liberty Coalition and the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the ACLU in opposition to CISPA in any form or under any name. We stopped CISPA, SOPA and PIPA last Congress and now we have to fight that battle again.
We urge you to email your representative in Congress and tell them to oppose CISPA and keep government agencies out of our private online data and communications and to stand up and overturn CISPA if it is introduced by executive order. You need to take information now. The vote is scheduled for Thursday April 18th.
You can start with an email to your representatives using the form below. Customize the text to express your personal outrage.
On April 16th, 2013 at 2:52 pm
I strongly urge you to reject CISPA, the latest attempt to violate our privacy on the Internet. Our country does not need more heavy-handed government snooping and regulation. Please resist the special interests which are promoting this measure, despite repeated past rejections of similar measures by Congress.
Sincerely yours,
Daniel Wiener
On April 16th, 2013 at 7:57 pm
My family and I left a country ravaged by Nazism and then communism. The people were robbed of their liberty and freedom. It appears to be happening in my adopted country now. It is a terrible shame.
On April 16th, 2013 at 9:17 pm
If they want to track and correlate cross border communications (think Able Danger), fine. Dumping the contents of US based servers into some Borg in Utah just doesn’t pass the smell test.
On April 17th, 2013 at 10:25 am
Something tells me they already consider themselves as having the authority to do whatever they want, they just do it anyway! It’s hard to have any faith in this corrupt government anymore when all they do is look for ways to control and tax us.
On April 18th, 2013 at 1:36 am
I am very concerned about the return of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) and the access which it would give government agencies and private businesses to my personal records and communication on the internet. I hope that you agree that our First and Fourth Amendment rights are too important to legislate away just to provide greater convenience to agencies like the National Security Agency. This bill should not be allowed to become a law through Congress or by executive order.