'Stop Watching Us' Coalition Aims to Stop NSA's PRISM Surveillance Program Nicole Greenstein - Time
go to original June 16, 2013

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The Stop Watching Us campaign will test its ability to mobilize opposition to the National Security Agency’s controversial surveillance programs with a national call-in day to Capitol Hill lawmakers this Tuesday, Rainey Reitman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation tells TIME.

The coalition of civil liberties groups began its efforts last Tuesday, when the site launched a petition urging Congress to put an end the NSA programs, which track Internet activity and collect American phone records.

Since then, Stop Watching Us has received over 167,000 electronic signatures and drawn support from groups like Occupy Wall Street NYC and an Ohio Tea Party Association. Each signature generates an e-mail to the author’s representative and two senators. In total, the group estimates it has facilitated around half a million e-mails being sent to Capitol Hill.

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