EARN IT Remains a Thinly Veiled Assault on Encryption
The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to mark up a bill that is a classic piece of Washington, D.C. misdirection. The Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies (EARN…
Congress Must Shut the Backdoor on Section 702 Surveillance
The fight over NSA surveillance is about to heat up again. This week, the House will consider a measure that would require the NSA and other government agencies to follow…
Civil Disobedience at Apple
Engineers at Apple are drawing a line in the sand. According to The Hill, multiple employees of the company have stated that they will outright refuse to comply with…
Coalition Letter: Support Amash’s Bill to Repeal the Flawed “Cybersecurity” Act of 2015
FreedomWorks has signed onto the following coalition letter, led by the R Street Institute. This letter urges support for H.R. 4350, a recent bipartisan bill introduced by Rep. Justin Amash…
Congress Poised to Pull a Cybersecurity End-Around
The Senate and House intelligence committees are working towards selling out Americans’ privacy this weekend for the illusion of cybersecurity. Specifically, the Senate’s Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) and its…
Key Vote YES on the Wyden Amendment to Strengthen Privacy Protections in CISA
As one of our over 6.9 million FreedomWorks activists nationwide, I urge you to contact your senators and ask them to vote YES on the Wyden amendment to add crucial…
Senate Set to Advance Flawed Cybersecurity Bill That Feeds Government Surveillance
This week, the Senate is set to finally take up its Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), S. 754. In the wake of several high-profile international hacking events, CISA is being…
Key Vote NO on House Cybersecurity Bills that Threaten Americans’ Privacy
As one of our over 6.9 million FreedomWorks members nationwide, I urge you to contact your representative and ask him or her to vote NO on both the Protecting Cyber…
House to Vote on Cybersecurity Bills with Major Privacy Issues
Next week is "Cyber Week" in the House, and two deeply flawed bills are heading to the floor that would further undermine the privacy of every American’s data. These bills…
Is new Cybersecurity Legislation about Security or Snooping?
The updated Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) easily passed through the Senate Intelligence Committee by a vote of 14-1. This is the fourth consecutive year that Congress will attempt…