Demand Progress said it would not easily accept...
Demand Progress said it would not easily accept “cosmetic reforms" to surveillance practices from President Barack Obama, who’s expected to deliver a speech on his plans Friday. “Real reform requires not just more transparency, but an end to mass collection…
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of so-called ‘meta-data,’ an adversarial process in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, and additional constraints on the collection of communications of Americans’ and citizens of other countries,” said Executive Director David Segal in a statement. “Neither Demand Progress’s members, nor millions of other Americans, will be placated by a whitewash that revamps the image of the global spying regime but does not offer serious reforms.” Demand Progress is helping to arrange a day of protest against mass surveillance, slated for Feb. 11 and in conjunction with groups including the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Mozilla.