The U.S. Congress will soon decide whether to reauthorize one of the government’s most notorious mass surveillance programs. On June 1st, three sections of the PATRIOT Act are set to expire, giving us a rare opportunity to push for reforms that will protect our privacy while also keeping us safe.
One of the provisions up for review, Section 215, has been used by the National Security Agency (NSA) to collect all call records of nearly everyone in the United States. For every call you make, the details of who you called, when you called, and for how long the call lasted — an incredibly detailed map of your private life — are all indiscriminately gathered by the NSA on an ongoing, daily basis.
Today, Mozilla is launching a campaign to enable our community to send a clear message to Congress: rein in the NSA and stop mass surveillance.
We believe keeping us safe shouldn’t have to cost us our privacy. That’s why we’re pushing for Congress to significantly reform these parts of the PATRIOT Act. Take action now!
Mozilla’s Position on Surveillance Reform
Mozilla is launching this campaign because our mission calls us to do so. The fourth principle of Mozilla’s Manifesto states: “Individuals’ security and privacy on the Internet are fundamental and must not be treated as optional.” There’s a long list of reforms and regulations we think are needed to improve user security, privacy, and trust — things like closing government backdoors, ensuring strong encryption, putting in place stronger oversight and accountability, and improving preventative security practices. Today, we have an opportunity to begin the long road toward reform by pushing Congress to rein in one of the worst abuses of the NSA. More specifically, we want Congress to adopt:

1. A strict ban on bulk collection activities under Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act, as well as Section 214 Pen Register/Trap and Trace authorities;
2. Sufficient transparency reporting in order to be able to tell if bulk or mass surveillance is occurring (this could include a blend of corporate transparency reporting, government transparency reporting, and declassification of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court opinions);
3. No new data retention mandates; and
4. No new secret surveillance authorities, powers, or programs.

It’s been nearly two years since the Snowden revelations began, and yet Congress has not passed any meaningful reform of the NSA’s sweeping, untargeted collection of our private information. Click here to join us in demanding that Congress rein in these mass surveillance programs.

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