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Dear Friend,
We're working on our New Year's resolutions for protecting Fourth Amendment rights. In 2023, lovers of freedom have a major opportunity. One of the key laws authorizing mass surveillance, Section 702 of the 2008 FISA Amendments Act, is set to expire. If Congress does not act, the NSA will be deprived of statutory authority for surveillance of "US-to-foreign" communications. Its vast dragnet "incidentally" captures the communications of millions of Americans without a warrant. Then, the FBI accesses that database without a warrant, for domestic law enforcement purposes, performing over 3 million searches each year. These "backdoor searches" circumvent the Fourth Amendment and permit mass domestic surveillance. We can stop this - but we need your help. Founded after the Snowden revelations of 2013, Restore the Fourth has already helped secure the sunset of another surveillance law, Section 215 of the Patriot Act, in 2020. Last time Section 702 was up for debate, we secured some transparency reforms. Now, with greater bipartisan support for surveillance reform, we can go further. It's time FISA went back to authorizing surveillance on an individual, not a mass basis. It's time the FBI got a warrant for searches on Americans. And it's time for the NSA and FBI to come clean, to Congress and the public, about the real scale of what they're doing. You deserve privacy in your communications and your browsing, instead of a government agent looking over your shoulder at everything you do. We're not funded by Google or Facebook or Amazon. We survive on donations from people like you. Please donate just $5 per month to help us fight mass surveillance in 2023, or volunteer to help undermine the surveillance state! |
As always; thank you for your support. Restore the Fourth |
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