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While we're calling, texting, emailing, and visiting our friends and loved ones, the NSA is tuning in and collecting massive amounts of data on millions of Americans. Take action to stop it now.
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StopWatching.us is a coalition of more than 100 public advocacy organizations. In this video, celebrities, activists, legal experts, and other prominent figures speak out against mass surveillance by the NSA
The NSA has undermined a fundamental social contract. We engineers built the internet – and now we have to fix it
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