You shouldn't have to choose between using new technology and keeping your personal information away from a snooping government.
Demand control of your personal information. Demand upgraded privacy protections to match our online world. Demand Your dotRights!
Sen. Ron Wyden & Rep. Jason Chaffetz introduced the Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act in the House and Senate to protect location privacy. The bills require law enforcement to get a warrant based on probable cause before accessing location information and also regulate the use of this information by business. With location tracking cases rising up all over the country this would provide a strong and clear national standard for law enforcement.
In 1986, there was no World Wide Web, nobody carried a cell phone, and the only “social networking” two-year-old Mark Zuckerberg was doing was at pre-school or on play dates.
1986 was also year that the law that protects the privacy of your electronic life — email, cell phone location records, Facebook posts, search history, cloud computing documents — was passed.
Online privacy law shouldn’t be older than the Web. Ask Congress for a privacy upgrade today!
If you use Facebook, you or your friends have probably taken a quiz about '80s trivia or Disney princesses. These quizzes might be fun, but it’s shocking just how much of your information they can access. Join us and demand that Facebook protect your privacy by restricting access to your personal information!
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The things we do and say online leave behind ever-growing trails of personal information. With every click, we entrust our conversations, emails, photos, location information and much more to companies like Facebook, Google and Yahoo. But what happens when the government asks these companies to hand over their users' private information?