A coalition of nearly two-dozen tech companies and civil liberties groups is launching a new fight against mass internet surveillance, hoping to battle the NSA in much the same way online campaigners pushed back on bad piracy legislation in 2012.
The new coalition, organized by Fight for the Future, is planning a Reset the Net day of action on June 5, the anniversary of the date the first Edward Snowden story broke detailing the government’s PRISM program, based on documents leaked by the former NSA contractor.
“Government spies have a weakness: they can hack anybody, but they can’t hack everybody,” the organizers behind the Reset the Net movement say in their video (above). “Folks like the NSA depend on collecting insecure data from tapped fiber. They depend on our mistakes, mistakes we can fix.”
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The call to action recalls a similar grassroots movement that swept the internet in 2012 to protest two federal bills — the Senate’s Protect IP Act and the House’s Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. In that case, thousands of websites went dark or partially dark to halt the legislation. That successful campaign, however, was backed by powerhouse tech firms like Google and Twitter.
So far, none of these companies has joined the coalition.
Read full article on Wired's Threat Level blog.
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