The “Lawful Access Act” would keep a months-long record of where your phone goes and who you talk to — even if you’ve done nothing wrong — and let the government secretly force companies to break the encryption that protects your private messages.
Imagine a law that made the post office photocopy the outside of everyone's mail and keep it for months — and forced every locksmith to install a spare keyhole only the government is “supposed” to use.
That spare keyhole is the catch. A back door built for the government is a back door criminals and foreign hackers go looking for too — and find.
You don't have to be doing anything wrong to be exposed by it.
It isn't law yet. The House rushed it through on June 18, but the Senate can still stop it — and a minute of your time right now actually counts.
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of metadata on people under no suspicion — still unjustified.
companies could be secretly ordered to weaken it.
passed the House June 18 — not yet law, still stoppable.
A record of everyone's movements and a permanent hole in encryption don't disappear when the headlines do. We'd be handing them to our kids — and to whoever holds power next.
That's the whole point of acting today. The Senate hasn't voted. One short message from you is on the record before it does.
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