CISPA abolishes internet privacy...

CISPA would obliterate any semblance of online privacy.

And it's up for a vote this week.
We need to slam Congress's phone lines to encourage lawmakers to vote no.
Please click here to find your lawmaker's phone number and place a call today.
CISPA would allow corporations to track and share all variety of information about Americans.
It would demolish existing barriers between the government and the private sector -- and between government agencies -- that restrict data sharing without cause, effectively allowing information about Americans' use of the Internet to slosh back and forth uninhibited.
It would provide the military and security agencies with broad new powers to track Americans' online activity.
We need members of Congress to oppose the legislation when it comes up for a vote later this week.
Please click here for a call script and to find your lawmaker's phone number -- we need as many calls as possible right away.
Thanks for keeping up the fight.
-Demand Progress

Don Young 202-225-5765

Thank you for calling your member of Congress -- will you take another minute to call members of House leadership? They control what bills Congress votes on.
You can tell them "CISPA would infringe on the privacy of all American Internet users. I urge you to oppose it."
House Speaker John Boehner: (202) 225-6205
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor: (202) 225-4000
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi: (202) 225-4965

INTERNET TAKEOVER BILL-- BLOGS & SOCIAL NETWORKING BANNED

Here's their next move: The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, would obliterate any semblance of online privacy in the United States.

And CISPA would provide a victory for content owners who were shell-shocked by the unprecedented outpouring of activism in opposition to SOPA and Internet censorship.
The House of Representatives is planning to take up CISPA later this month. Click here to ask your lawmakers to oppose it.
SOPA was pushed as a remedy to the supposed economic threat of online piracy -- but economic fear-mongering didn't quite do the trick.
So those concerned about copyright are engaging in sleight of hand, appending their legislation to a bill that most Americans will assume is about keeping them safe from bad guys.
This so-called cyber security bill aims to prevent theft of "government information" and "intellectual property" and could let ISPs block your access to websites -- or the whole Internet.
Don't let them push this back-door SOPA. Click here to demand that your lawmakers oppose CISPA.
CISPA also encourages companies to share information about you with the government and other corporations.
That data could then be used for just about anything -- from prosecuting crimes to ad placements.
And perhaps worst of all, CISPA supercedes all other online privacy protections.
Please click here to urge your lawmakers to oppose CISPA when it comes up for a vote this month.
Thanks for fighting for the Internet.
-Demand Progress

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Technology used on Al-Qaeda used on Americans.

The government recently issued 300 Federal Aviation Permits for low level flying drones to be used by law enforcement officers to find missing persons and people hiding in deep underbrush. The infrared see-in-the-dark technology allows them to be used night or day. 

Law enforcement is also lobbying for radar transponders and clearance in populated areas to avoid collisions with low flying aircraft.

            The same technology used to take out Al-Qaeda is now being used by local law enforcement officers on American Citizens. Sheriff Deputies are deploying them from the trunk of their cars. This has raised considerable controversy and privacy questions.

US to supply ‘Shadow’ drones to Pakistan: Defense officials

[Ed. Note: India is very nervous about this. India has Drones in the air now, provided by Israel. One of the first Drones India purchased was a Harrop Suicide Drone (see below for video). They have more advanced Drones in the air also. The US supplying Pakistan with the Shadow Drone is the first step to either being supplied with more advanced systems, or Pakistan altering the Shadow Drone to carry weapons. Here's what is in the planning stages by the US Military for the Shadow Drone, make it a Killer Drone, read below.]

New DOD Effort Arms Low-Flying Unmanned Aircraft With Precision Weapons
The Defense Department is planning a new pilot program to arm low-flying unmanned aircraft with precision weapons, a move to emulate strike capabilities of higher-flying Predator UAVs that Pentagon officials believe could point toward an entire class of small, unmanned systems capable of killing targets they locate. U.S. Special Operations Command will launch in fiscal year 2009 a technology demonstration effort to equip Shadow unmanned aerial vehicles with laser-guided munitions, according to Pentagon officials. . .“We’re going to weaponize Shadow for SOCOM,” John Wilcox, director of the joint concept technology demonstrations office in the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s Advanced Systems and Concepts shop, disclosed. “We’re also going to look at weaponizing a couple more small UAVs.” With one-to-five-pound weapons, these tiny killers could take out high-value targets — “or hold a target at risk until bigger and better operational platforms with more ordnance get onto the battlefield.”