ALERTS Tell Congress: Let the Courts Do Their Job!
 The EFF and the ACLU have scored key victories in obtaining judicial review of the NSA's domestic wiretapping program. But now a new bill is threatening to put an end to vigorous oversight by the federal court system. Find out whether your Senator is a key figure in this fight, and tell him or her to oppose the Specter-Cheney Surveillance Bill.
Save Internet Fair Use! Copyright holders have smuggled language into a House bill that would smash Internet fair use. Tell Congress to oppose the Section 115 Reform Act now.
Stop Senator Stevens from Monkeying with Your Rights!
 Senator Stevens' latest telecom bill contains provisions that would slap restrictions on digital televisions and radios and stifle legitimate online speech. Tell your Senator to halt a bill that contains the broadcast flag, the audio flag, and a new web labeling law that could send webmasters to jail.
Tell Congress to Say No to DOPA!
 The Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA) requires public schools and libraries to block access to social networking sites and other communication tools as a condition for receiving certain government funding. Take action now to protect free speech online.
AOL's Data Leak - Were You Exposed?
 AOL violated the privacy of 650,000 users by publicly releasing three months of search query records. The leak exposed private information about families, medical histories, financial information, and much more. Were you one of the AOL customers whose personal data was exposed? Was a friend or family member? Contact AOL and demand the company takes action.
The Corruptibles
 Congress could give the entertainment industry new super powers to control your TV, radio and computer. Find out more in this animation, and write to stop Broadcast Flag, Audio Flag, and Analog Hole laws.
Californians: Keep Privacy-Leaking Chips out of State ID!
 If Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags are embedded in ID cards, they could transmit your personal information to strangers without your permission or knowledge. S.B. 768, a bill that enforces proper protections for RFID tech in government-issued IDs, is now ready to be voted on by the California Assembly. If you live in California, tell your representative to protect your privacy, and support S.B. 768 now!
WIPO's Broadcasting Treaty: Let the Public Decide
 The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a specialized agency of the United Nations that promotes the protection of intellectual property throughout the world, is working on a new Broadcasting Treaty. The proposed Treaty would give invasive new rights to broadcasting and web-streaming middlemen and would create a global framework for broadcast flag-style technology mandates. The U.S. delegation at WIPO wants to extend the treaty even further, to include webcasts and retransmissions over the Internet. Tell Congress to open up this process to proper scrutiny before it's too late!
Don't Let Congress Shackle Digital Music
The PERFORM Act, introduced by Senator Dianne Feinstein, would limit consumers' ability to record from radio and would force Internet radio stations to switch to DRM-strapped formats instead of MP3 or open formats. Stop Congress from meddling with your music: tell your representative to oppose PERFORM!
Stop Congress from XXXing with Free Speech!
 Senators Mark Pryor (D-AR) and Max Baucus (D-MT) have introduced a bill that would force all sites with material deemed "harmful to minors" to move to an ".xxx" domain or face civil penalties. The Cyber Safety for Kids Act will do little to limit children’s access to sexually-explicit websites, but its attempts at doing so will violate the First Amendment and chill legitimate speech online. Tell your senators to stand against it now!
Stop the RIAA's Radio Interference!
 What's even worse than the MPAA's TV broadcast flag? The RIAA's proposed flag for radio. A new bill introduced into Congress would saddle new digital radios with government-enforced restrictions, including prohibiting legal home recording that wasn't "authorized" by the RIAA, saddling all receivers with DRM, and limiting any future innovation in radio to existing "customary" uses. Tell your representative to keep the entertainment industry's hands off new technology and to oppose the audio flag!
Stop Congress Mandating Secret Technology
 Representatives Sensenbrenner and Conyers have introduced a bill that would force all equipment that can be used to convert analog signals to digital to include watermarking detectors that would have to obey invisible "VEIL" marks in video signals. But what is VEIL, and how would the detectors work? Security researchers don't know - because they have to pay $10,000 and sign a non-disclosure agreement with VEIL's designers to find out. Tell your Representative that public laws shouldn't have secret provisions.
Best E-voting Bill Reintroduced - Lend Your Support!
 In 2004, thousands of EFF activists helped Rep. Rush Holt's Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act (VCIAA, HR 550) garner immense support before the session ended. The bill contains several critically important election reforms, including the requirement of a paper audit trail for all electronic voting machines, random audits, and public availability of all code used in elections. HR 550 was reintroduced in February, and it currently has over 130 bipartisan cosponsors. The momentum is on our side, and it's more important than ever to ask your representative to support this bill since many counties across the country are choosing voting equipment now. Tell Congress to stand up for election reform!
Support DMCA Reform - Help Pass HR 1201!
 The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) has been wreaking havoc on consumers' fair use rights for the past seven years. Now Congress is considering the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act (DMCRA, HR 1201), a bill that would reform part of the DMCA and formally protect the "Betamax defense" relied on by so many innovators. Take action now to reform the DMCA!
Protect Public Weather Data
 The National Weather Service (NWS), a taxpayer-funded agency, monitors thousands of weather stations around America in order to predict hurricanes, sunshine, and every meteorological event in between. In addition to the raw data that it assembles, NWS has recently started offering more user-friendly info to the public via the Internet. So why has Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) introduced a bill that would restrict the kind of information that NWS can freely share? Find out more about the National Weather Services Duties Act (S.786) and help us fight it today!
Stop the Trademark Act from Diluting Free Speech!
 The Trademark Dilution Revision Act (TDRA, HR 683) is a big company's dream. If it passes, the lawyers policing a trademark could sue businesses and individuals for using words, images, or even colors that look vaguely like a famous brand - without even having to prove that the company is being harmed. In other words, TDRA would make it possible for UPS to sue Brown's Record Store, even though nobody in their right mind would get the two confused. This bill would chill speech and hand ownership of common words to big companies. Fight the TDRA today! | 
