{"id":1088,"date":"2012-08-02T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2012-08-02T00:38:36","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T04:38:36","slug":"like-your-privacy-time-to-say-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/02\/like-your-privacy-time-to-say-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Like your privacy? Time to say so"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20120801\/10031719906\/would-you-like-to-keep-government-spying-you-speak-up-now.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">TechDirt<\/a> is reporting that the Senate will vote on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2012\/07\/new-cybersecurity-proposal-patches-serious-privacy-vulnerabilities\" target=\"_blank\">Cybersecurity Act of 2012<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/hsgac.senate.gov\/download\/?id=10fe9b7c-5cf4-4282-9170-e625c0f8db7e\" target=\"_blank\">S.3414<\/a>) by the end of this week.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid seems to be trying to end debate on the bill and move to a vote.\u00a0 However, there is a chance that the Senate may vote on the Franken-Paul amendment which would increase privacy protections.<\/p>\n<p>This bill isn&#8217;t a slam dunk and all it takes is 41 votes to stop it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you value your privacy, then please tell both Senators to oppose S.3414, while also working to add pro-privacy amendments to it.<\/strong> \u00a0 Please call the numbers listed below as the time for email messages is over.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Senator Scott Brown<\/span><br \/>\n(202) 224-4543<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Senator John Kerry<\/span><br \/>\n(202) 224-2742<\/p>\n<p>The American Library Association has this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.districtdispatch.org\/2012\/07\/ask-your-senators-to-support-privacy-amendments-in-cybersecurity-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\">easy form<\/a> you can use to connect you to the office of one of your Senators at a time.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TechDirt is reporting that the Senate will vote on the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 (S.3414) by the end of this week. Senate Majority&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privacy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-hy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1093,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions\/1093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}