dannyEFF

Hi, GFS! I helped start the Open Rights Group in the UK. It, along with a coalition of some of the other most influential privacy groups in the country, launched Don't Spy On Us today, specifically to fight mass surveillance in the UK. They're all great groups to join and work with.

Also note that there are dozens of actions around the world aimed at lobbying national governments: you can see a few of them here, and here. If you don't see one in your country or region, contact your local privacy activism group from the signatories of the 13 Principles. Or start your own!

think of somebody you know who might be at risk from somebody in power knowing every detail of their lives. Maybe it's a person you admire from the past, who could have been destroyed before they had the chance to change the world in a way you rely on. MLK, say, or Winston Churchill. Or think about a family friend or someone you know with powerful enemies.

Sometimes it's not your rights you fight for, but those of somebody vulnerable or brave who you know.

Speaking personally -- that it happened this way at all. We're now at the point where two of the biggest issues that EFF covers -- NSA surveillance, and global intellectual property and internet regulation -- now rely in large part on the work of whistleblowers for public debate and analysis.

TPP is a text that will affect millions of people. Worse, with Fast Track operating in the US, even Congress would have had almost no input in their content. It's more than unsettling that this is business as usual these days.

I think Pete's point is really worth emphasising. EFF spent a lot of time working in Peru during the Lima round of the negotiations, and technologists there were really powerful in explaining to their government how the US line was not good for the emerging industries and Internet in Peru. Given that this is supposed to be a hard-nosed negotiation between countries, it shouldn't be surprising that those with big media companies would try and hoodwink other countries! But it needs local citizens to stand up and defend their right to a free internet and copyright laws in the public interest. Their public interest.