Stop Watching Us: The Video

StopWatching.us is a coalition of more than 100 public advocacy organizations and companies from across the political spectrum. Join the movement at https://rally.stopwatching.us. This video harnesses the voices of celebrities, activists, legal experts, and other prominent figures in speaking out against mass surveillance by the NSA. Please share widely to help us spread the message that we will not stand for the dragnet surveillance of our communications.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is a nonprofit civil liberties law and advocacy center that has been fighting the NSA's unconstitutional spying for years. Learn more at https://eff.org.

Revelations that have emerged in the
past few months from whistleblower

Edward Snowden and others have painted
a disturbing picture

of widespread suspicionless surveillance of
American citizens.

We got a wake-up call just recently

NSA snooping includes the interception and collection of call detail records

and Internet traffic including audio
video

photographs documents chat logs and emails

Every American is at risk for getting caught
up in the NSA

dragnet including average citizens not
suspected of a crime.

We have also learned of the large-scale
collaboration with Telecom giants,

Internet companies, and service providers.
Some concerned email providers have

chosen to shut their doors rather than
cave to government

subpoenas to hand over their users' data. We've been

misled. - Does the NSA collected any

type at data at all on millions

or hundreds of millions of America?
No sir.

We've seen this story before. -We've had
too much secrecy in this country. It has

corrupted the government-

And we decided it was wrong. It was wrong then
and it's wrong now

This is a fearful situation. The American
people

one of the basic rights is the right to
privacy. -Unrestrained

illegal secret intimidation and
harassment

of the essential ability of Americans to
participate

freely in American political life shall
never happen again.

Nixon's crimes predated widespread
Internet use by decades

The tools for surveillance have never been more
powerful

and the threat to our civil liberties
has never been greater

Edward Snowden was not the first. I
represent

6 NSA whistleblowers who are being charged
with espionage

for telling the truth. -We truly as a
nation

are at a crossroads. -I became aware they were sweeping up

everybody's data indiscriminately.

What I was I eye-witness to was a
subversion of the Constitution, and that

was when the hair on the back of my neck
went up

and so I became a whistle-blower.

This is our information. This is our
information.

This is our information. This is our
information. It is the digital archive

of our lives, texts of our chats with our families

the backbone everything that we care for,
humanitarian causes and things that we

fight for

It is everything you use the Internet
for

History tells us we need to watch the watchers

In the surveillance state democracy itself is dead

It makes a mockery of our
system of government

which is based on the notion of independent
branches of government

including a 4th Estate, the press. -A free
society

should not have secret laws. It doesn't
have to present

this false trade-off between security or
privacy.

We need to bring NSA activity from
the shadows into the light of day

We need to end mass suspicionless

surveillance.

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