EFF Action Center

Action Center

		Fight Government Secrecy and Reform the State Secrets Privilege Tell Senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee to support the State Secrets Protection Act of 2009, a bill designed to curb abuse of the state secrets privilege. The government has used the overbroad privilege to get lawsuits thrown out of court before they have even begun, based merely on the claim that letting courts judge the legality of those programs would endanger national security. The bill would make changes to ensure meaningful judicial oversight and is likely to be marked up soon in an upcoming Senate Judiciary Committee meeting. Your support in the fight against government secrecy is needed now more than ever -- tell the committee to support state secrets privilege reform today!

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		Reform The PATRIOT Act: Stop Abuse of National Security Letters Chief among the unconstitutional powers authorized by the Patriot Act are so-called national security letters (NSLs). These secret subpoenas allow the FBI, without any independent oversight or judicial review, to seize private data about ordinary Americans. Now, Representatives Jerry Nadler and Jeff Flake have have introduced the National Security Letters Reform Act of 2009, which would curb the power's worst abuses. With portions of the Patriot Act set to expire later this year, the time has come to tell Congress to begin real reform on privacy and civil liberties issues -- urge your representative to begin by supporting the National Security Letters Reform Act.

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		Act on ACTA: Tell the New Congress to Open the Secret IP Pact Revelations about the secretive Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) have emerged, and the news is not good for technology users or digital rights. Instead of concentrating on physical fakes and fraud, recently leaked draft language suggests ACTA will provide expansive powers to customs authorities worldwide to search and seize digital technology at the border on suspicion of IP infringements and to widen the criminalization of previously civil IP law way beyond profit-seeking pirates. An entire section of the trade agreement would create new regulations over the Internet and DRM -- but those details remain secret. Write to your representatives now to demand that Congress bring transparency to this clandestine pact.

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