Fight back today against mass surveillance

Call or email your representative and let them know that you, too, want to stop the NSA’s mass collection of our information. The Electronic Frontier Foundation made it really easy.

The short version: Mass data collection is bad,  no matter how (allegedly) benign the intentions are of the collecting agency. Every person has the right to privacy, even if (and especially if) you have “nothing to hide”. I have nothing to hide, but I wouldn’t let any random stranger open my mail, take pictures of my kids in my home, or know every single little thing about where I go, what I buy, and who I talk to.

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