OpenMedia and other 18 civil liberties organizations oppose final version of dangerous cyber bill

OpenMedia and other civil liberties organizations are standing up to oppose the final version of the dangerous cyber bill CISA

Press release by Fight For The Future

A group of 19 civil liberties organizations from across the political spectrum this morning issued a letter to the White House and Congress urging lawmakers to oppose the final “conferenced” version of a dangerous cyber bill that experts say will dramatically expand government surveillance while failing to make us safer from cyber attacks.

Click here to view the letter and complete list of signers as a PDF.

“The final version of this bill is an insult to the public and puts all of us in greater danger of cyber attacks and government surveillance,” said Evan Greer, campaign director of Fight for the Future, who organized the letter, “This was already a fundamentally flawed piece of legislation, and now even the meager privacy protections it provided have been gutted, exposing it for what it really is: a bill to dramatically expand abusive government spying.”

- Read more at Fight For The Future