Repeal the Cybersecurity Act of 2015
Late last year Congress passed invasive surveillance legislation: the Cybersecurity Act of 2015. And to avoid a public debate on the controversial bill, proponents snuck it into a secret and hastily negotiated government-funding package during the battle over the federal budget.
Now we need Congress to repeal that law.
Reps. Justin Amash and John Conyers have introduced a new bill — H.R. 4530 — that would do just that.
The Cybersecurity Act is unlikely to increase the government’s ability to detect and stop cybersecurity attacks. Instead the law opens up a new avenue for warrantless surveillance and grants immunity from liability to companies that share private user information with the government, trumping crucial privacy-protecting laws like the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and the Privacy Act of 1964.
This is not a cybersecurity bill; it's a cyber-surveillance bill by another name.
Call your representatives now and tell them to back H.R. 4530 and protect our privacy rights online.