[PAA-Discuss] Please act now to oppose Internet snooping bill!

[rebelljb at aol.com]

Friends,

"A direct assault on Internet users" is what the ACLU is calling it.

Yesterday a U.S. House committee approved HR 1981, a broad new Internet 
snooping bill. They want to force Internet service providers to keep 
track of and retain their customers' information -- including your 
name, address, phone number, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, 
and temporarily-assigned IP addresses.

The American Civil Liberties Union, the American Library Association, 
the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Demand Progress, and 25 other civil 
liberties and privacy groups have expressed our opposition to this 
legislation. Will you join us, by emailing your lawmakers today? Just 
click here:

http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/snooping_bill/?referring_akid=a1912734.317990.OiNnN_&source=auto-taf

They've shamelessly dubbed it the "Protecting Children From Internet 
Pornographers Act." But our staunchest allies in Congress are calling 
it what it is -- an all-encompassing Internet snooping bill. ISPs would 
collect and retain your data whether or not you're accused of a crime.

CNet Reports: Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, who led Democratic 
opposition to the bill said, ""It represents a data bank of every 
digital act by every American' that would 'let us find out where every 
single American visited Web sites."

"The bill is mislabeled," said Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, the 
senior Democrat on the panel. "This is not protecting children from 
Internet pornography. It's creating a database for everybody in this 
country for a lot of other purposes."

Please join the Center for Democracy and Technology, the Consumer 
Federation of America, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, 
Demand Progress, and 25 other civil liberties and privacy groups in 
opposing this legislation. Just click here:

http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/snooping_bill/?referring_akid=a1912734.317990.OiNnN_&source=auto-taf

Thanks!