38 Degrees, the biggest online campaigning community in the UK, is appealing for members to sign their latest petition.
They’re hoping to gather at least 30,000 signatures (today) on their petition asking David Cameron to “Stop the Internet and phone snooping plan”.
The petition already has over 11,000 signatures calling for the Government to “Keep your election promise to ‘reverse the rise of the surveillance state'”.
In an email to members, Marie Campbell says,
The government has just announced a plan to spy on us all, to be pushed through “as soon as Parliamentary time allows”. [1] They want to see details of who we call, text and email, and which websites we visit – without any kind of warrant or reason. They want to force phone and internet companies to install special devices to provide all this data on each and every one of us. [2]
Experts are lining up to condemn this idea as intrusive, expensive and ineffective. [3] But we know that when the Labour government announced similar plans a few years ago, a huge outcry was needed to make them to back down. [4]
So let’s build a massive petition right away, to show David Cameron that British citizens simply won’t put up with the government spying on their every move.
Visit the 38 Degrees Website to Sign the Petition
References
[1] Telegraph: Internet activity ‘to be monitored’ under new laws
[2] Telegraph: New powers to record every phone call and email makes surveillance ’60m times worse’
[3] Independent: Backlash over plans to monitor all internet use and Times: Internet law will be a ‘honeypot’ for snoopers
[4] BBC: Warning over need for safeguards in email and web monitoring plan
