EFF’s Game Plan for Ending Global Mass Surveillance:
But what about everyone else? What about the 96% of the world’s population who are citizens of other countries, living outside U.S. borders. They don’t get a vote in Congress. And current American legal protections generally only protect citizens, legal residents, or those physically located within the United States. So what can EFF do to protect the billions of people outside the United States who are victims of the NSA’s spying?
For years, we’ve been working on a strategy to end mass surveillance of digital communications of innocent people worldwide. Today we’re laying out the plan, so you can understand how all the pieces fit together—that is, how U.S. advocacy and policy efforts connect to the international fight and vice versa. Decide for yourself where you can get involved to make the biggest difference.
This plan isn’t for the next two weeks or three months. It’s a multi-year battle that may need to be revised many times as we better understand the tools and authorities of entities engaged in mass surveillance and as more disclosures by whistleblowers help shine light on surveillance abuses.
This is a long read, but it packs a summary of almost everything you need to know to understand the basics of global mass surveillance and the global movement that is organizing to oppose it.
It includes a brief summary of what’s going on with mass surveillance world-wide (especially surveillance by US agencies of non-US citizens, which it does focus on since with enough public pressure Americans pose a good chance of overturning it), a do-it-yourself kit for personal privacy protection, and an over-arching multi-year, internationally coordinated plan to fight back globally against unchecked surveillance, including plenty of places where you, no matter which country you live in or what your skills are, may be able to help.
In particular, for Americans, note that the provision of the Patriot Act that the NSA uses to justify its data collection is up for renewal this June. And a Presidential Order (issued by Ronald Reagan) is the primary element protecting much of this surveillance, which could be undone by a Presidential Order from Obama.
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