The NSA is Spying on us!

Dear Freedom loving American,

This very minute, the NSA is scouring the internet, pouring through instant messages, video chats, personal emails, and phone calls, quite possibly including your private information. It’s mining through massive amounts of stored communications from companies like Google, Facebook, and Apple.

While the NSA often suggests it collects only the communications of alleged terrorist “targets,” in reality it’s scanning and storing the private information of millions of Americans. 

What’s worse – all of this surveillance happens without a warrant and almost always without your knowledge. And once the government has collected your information under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, it can use it for many purposes, even when you’ve done nothing illegal.

Section 702 is set to expire this year, and Congress has to decide whether or not to leave it in place, reform it to protect your right to privacy, or replace it. We stand a real chance at winning important reforms to put constitutional limits back on government surveillance, but we need your help.

Take action now – tell Congress to protect our online privacy and reform Section 702.

Under Section 702, the NSA rakes in at least 250 million online communications annually, and it holds onto most of those communications for five years. This means the NSA is storing at least a billion communications in its databases at any given time. And, based on some estimates, roughly half of all files collected contain information about U.S. citizens or residents.

The NSA can’t be trusted to police itself. It’s failed the American public time and time again. This kind of warrantless surveillance is wrong, un-American, and unconstitutional. Speak out and tell Congress to reform government surveillance.

Thank you,
Anthony and all of us at the ACLU