[mdlug] Fwd: [opensuse-offtopic] Free software fighting back against bulk surveillance

[Aaron Kulkis]

Today the FSF is joining a team of more than thirty organizations to
rally against bulk surveillance, in a global event called The Day We
Fight Back. Despite their diverse issue areas, each of these
organizations recognizes that bulk surveillance is a direct threat to
the freedom and security of their supporters and their ability to do work.

The goal of The Day We Fight Back <https://u.fsf.org/tq> is to create a
massive wave of phone calls and emails from citizens to legislatures
around the world, demanding an end to bulk government surveillance.

*Please click here <https://u.fsf.org/tq> to contact your government.*

In the US legislature, we are asking that lawmakers support the USA
Freedom Act
<https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/usa-freedom-act-real-spying-reform>,
which would give people crucial protections from mass-scale government
surveillance. We're also opposing the FISA Amendments Act
<https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security-technology-and-liberty/sen-dianne-feinsteins-nsa-reforms-bad-privacy-bad>,
which is being billed as reform, but would actually /strengthen/ bulk
surveillance.

Citizens of other countries are demanding an end to existing bulk
surveillance programs, and demonstrating that they will not tolerate an
escalation to the levels of surveillance seen in the US.

The free software movement has a very important role in the battle to
push back surveillance <https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/surveillance>. We
make the tools that are the gold standard for safeguarding digital
privacy. Leaders across the privacy movement point to free programs like
GnuPG <https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Collection:PRISM> as key parts of
any solution. Operating through your support, the FSF is organizing
within the GNU System to spur a redoubling of free software work on
privacy tools, and simultaneously developing a guide to make some of
these tools more accessible to the general public.

But we also have to remember that free software alone is not enough to
bring government surveillance into check. We need a strong,
cross-movement effort that includes legislative and cultural change.

*So please join thousands of the FSF's followers and followers of the
other organizations in this coalition, and head over to the Day We Fight
Back Web site <https://u.fsf.org/tq> to contact your government today.*

Zak Rogoff
Campaigns Manager
Free Software Foundation

/You can read this post online at
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/free-software-fighting-back-against-bulk-surveillance/.


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