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Mozilla's StopWatchingUs: This Plan To End Government Spying Has Grown So Big It Might Actually Work - Inventor of World Wide Web now Onboard | |
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| clovis (OP) User ID: 41175064 United States06/12/2013 07:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Mozilla's StopWatchingUs: This Plan To End Government Spying Has Grown So Big It Might Actually Work - Inventor of World Wide Web now Onboard Interesting! This link says only 64,280 signatures so far [link to www.stopwatching.us (secure)] It appears the link in the original thread post is the one that is updating [link to optin.stopwatching.us (secure)] Last Edited by clovis on 06/12/2013 08:07 PM pEacE, cLovIs |
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| clovis (OP) User ID: 41175064 United States06/12/2013 07:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Mozilla's StopWatchingUs: This Plan To End Government Spying Has Grown So Big It Might Actually Work - Inventor of World Wide Web now Onboard Reaction from Mozzila has been as harsh as Google’s, as Mozilla’s Alex Fowler, leader of privacy and public policy, announced “last week, media reports emerged that the US government is requiring vast amounts of data from Internet and phone companies via top secret surveillance programs. The revelations, which confirm many of our worst fears, raise serious questions about individual privacy protections, checks on government power and court orders impacting some of the most popular Web services”. “Mozilla believes in an internet where we do not have to fear that everything we do is being tracked, monitored and logged by either companies or governments. And we believe in a government whose actions are visible, transparent and accountable”, said Fowler. Quotes from [link to inserbia.info] pEacE, cLovIs |
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| clovis (OP) User ID: 41175064 United States06/12/2013 07:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Mozilla's StopWatchingUs: This Plan To End Government Spying Has Grown So Big It Might Actually Work - Inventor of World Wide Web now Onboard Here's the letter from Mozilla (StopWatching.US) to Congress Dear Members of Congress, We write to express our concern about recent reports published in the Guardian and the Washington Post, and acknowledged by the Obama Administration, which reveal secret spying by the National Security Agency (NSA) on phone records and Internet activity of people in the United States. The Washington Post and the Guardian recently published reports based on information provided by a career intelligence officer showing how the NSA and the FBI are gaining broad access to data collected by nine of the leading U.S. Internet companies and sharing this information with foreign governments. As reported, the U.S. government is extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person's movements and contacts over time. As a result, the contents of communications of people both abroad and in the U.S. can be swept in without any suspicion of crime or association with a terrorist organization. Leaked reports also published by the Guardian and confirmed by the Administration reveal that the NSA is also abusing a controversial section of the PATRIOT Act to collect the call records of millions of Verizon customers. The data collected by the NSA includes every call made, the time of the call, the duration of the call, and other "identifying information" for millions of Verizon customers, including entirely domestic calls, regardless of whether those customers have ever been suspected of a crime. The Wall Street Journal has reported that other major carriers, including AT&T and Sprint, are subject to similar secret orders. This type of blanket data collection by the government strikes at bedrock American values of freedom and privacy. This dragnet surveillance violates the First and Fourth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, which protect citizens' right to speak and associate anonymously and guard against unreasonable searches and seizures that protect their right to privacy. We are calling on Congress to take immediate action to halt this surveillance and provide a full public accounting of the NSA's and the FBI's data collection programs. We call on Congress to immediately and publicly: Enact reform this Congress to Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act, the state secrets privilege, and the FISA Amendments Act to make clear that blanket surveillance of the Internet activity and phone records of any person residing in the U.S. is prohibited by law and that violations can be reviewed in adversarial proceedings before a public court; Create a special committee to investigate, report, and reveal to the public the extent of this domestic spying. This committee should create specific recommendations for legal and regulatory reform to end unconstitutional surveillance; Hold accountable those public officials who are found to be responsible for this unconstitutional surveillance. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Sincerely, Last Edited by clovis on 06/12/2013 07:55 PM pEacE, cLovIs |
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| mtn.girl User ID: 32911561 United States06/12/2013 07:57 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Mozilla's StopWatchingUs: This Plan To End Government Spying Has Grown So Big It Might Actually Work - Inventor of World Wide Web now Onboard Well dang, that was one of the reason I use firefox, thought it was more secure. LOL!!! off to sign the sucker! update: signed! Last Edited by mtn.girl on 06/12/2013 07:59 PM Psalm 23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. |
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| guy User ID: 29235598 United States06/12/2013 08:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Mozilla's StopWatchingUs: This Plan To End Government Spying Has Grown So Big It Might Actually Work - Inventor of World Wide Web now Onboard Went from IE, to firefox, to mac (safari), back to firefox, to chrome, back to safari, and now looks like I will stick with firefox. Thanks Mozilla for respecting my privacy. |
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| clovis (OP) User ID: 41175064 United States06/12/2013 08:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Mozilla's StopWatchingUs: This Plan To End Government Spying Has Grown So Big It Might Actually Work - Inventor of World Wide Web now Onboard Went from IE, to firefox, to mac (safari), back to firefox, to chrome, back to safari, and now looks like I will stick with firefox. Thanks Mozilla for respecting my privacy. Quoting: guy 29235598 I've tried them all as well, except I've been with Mozilla now for quite some time. Not sure if it will accomplish anything, but at least we know who's loyal to their users pEacE, cLovIs |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27112816 United States06/12/2013 08:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Mozilla's StopWatchingUs: This Plan To End Government Spying Has Grown So Big It Might Actually Work - Inventor of World Wide Web now Onboard But then why is everything in Firefox preferenced to use Google services? go to about:config in firefox and count how many times you find "google". They can't care all that much! |
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| calin User ID: 33469296 United States06/12/2013 08:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Mozilla's StopWatchingUs: This Plan To End Government Spying Has Grown So Big It Might Actually Work - Inventor of World Wide Web now Onboard I refuse to use google or Chrome! Glad! .............................. When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. .................................. THE SECOND AGREEMENT: "Don't take anything personally. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering." ~ Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 25374084 United States06/12/2013 08:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Mozilla's StopWatchingUs: This Plan To End Government Spying Has Grown So Big It Might Actually Work - Inventor of World Wide Web now Onboard "Hoping to tap into the wave of anti-SOPA Internet activism that flooded Congress last year, Mozilla has joined with a variety of activist groups to found an anti-spying coalition called StopWatching.Us." Quoting: clovis The just-launched website's first order of business will be to gather signatures for a petition that demands Congress "reveal the full extent of the NSA's spying programs." Quotes from [link to arstechnica.com] 85,466 signature thus far [link to optin.stopwatching.us (secure)] 90,316 now |
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| Still Meow... User ID: 3650237 United States06/12/2013 08:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Mozilla's StopWatchingUs: This Plan To End Government Spying Has Grown So Big It Might Actually Work - Inventor of World Wide Web now Onboard Here's the letter from Mozilla (StopWatching.US) to Congress Quoting: clovis Dear Members of Congress, We write to express our concern about recent reports published in the Guardian and the Washington Post, and acknowledged by the Obama Administration, which reveal secret spying by the National Security Agency (NSA) on phone records and Internet activity of people in the United States. The Washington Post and the Guardian recently published reports based on information provided by a career intelligence officer showing how the NSA and the FBI are gaining broad access to data collected by nine of the leading U.S. Internet companies and sharing this information with foreign governments. As reported, the U.S. government is extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person's movements and contacts over time. As a result, the contents of communications of people both abroad and in the U.S. can be swept in without any suspicion of crime or association with a terrorist organization. Leaked reports also published by the Guardian and confirmed by the Administration reveal that the NSA is also abusing a controversial section of the PATRIOT Act to collect the call records of millions of Verizon customers. The data collected by the NSA includes every call made, the time of the call, the duration of the call, and other "identifying information" for millions of Verizon customers, including entirely domestic calls, regardless of whether those customers have ever been suspected of a crime. The Wall Street Journal has reported that other major carriers, including AT&T and Sprint, are subject to similar secret orders. This type of blanket data collection by the government strikes at bedrock American values of freedom and privacy. This dragnet surveillance violates the First and Fourth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, which protect citizens' right to speak and associate anonymously and guard against unreasonable searches and seizures that protect their right to privacy. We are calling on Congress to take immediate action to halt this surveillance and provide a full public accounting of the NSA's and the FBI's data collection programs. We call on Congress to immediately and publicly: Enact reform this Congress to Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act, the state secrets privilege, and the FISA Amendments Act to make clear that blanket surveillance of the Internet activity and phone records of any person residing in the U.S. is prohibited by law and that violations can be reviewed in adversarial proceedings before a public court; Create a special committee to investigate, report, and reveal to the public the extent of this domestic spying. This committee should create specific recommendations for legal and regulatory reform to end unconstitutional surveillance; Hold accountable those public officials who are found to be responsible for this unconstitutional surveillance. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Sincerely, BEST. LETTER. EVAH!!!!!!! |
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| Still Meow... User ID: 3650237 United States06/12/2013 09:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Mozilla's StopWatchingUs: This Plan To End Government Spying Has Grown So Big It Might Actually Work - Inventor of World Wide Web now Onboard |
| clovis (OP) User ID: 41175064 United States06/12/2013 09:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Mozilla's StopWatchingUs: This Plan To End Government Spying Has Grown So Big It Might Actually Work - Inventor of World Wide Web now Onboard That was you who karma pinned this? If so, some green is on the way for you No...I didn't karma pin it...I wasn't able to...but I signed and passed it around. Sorry for the misunderstanding. Well, I gave you +1 green, so you get credit until someone comes forward pEacE, cLovIs |
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