[pp.int.general] PRESS RELEASE: UNITED STATES PIRATE PARTY CONDEMNS GOVERNMENT SPYING; DEMANDS NSA DELIVER TRANSPARENCY, PHONE RECORDS

[Maryland Pirates]

*THE FOLLOWING RELEASE HAS BEEN SENT ON BEHALF OF THE UNITED STATES PIRATE
PARTY BY THE MARYLAND PIRATE PARTY.*


UNITED STATES PIRATE PARTY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sunday, June 9, 2013
http://uspirates.org

CONTACT: Lindsay-Anne Brunner
Phone: 818-724-7662
Email: kusanagi.chroma at gmail.com



*UNITED STATES PIRATE PARTY CONDEMNS GOVERNMENT SPYING**; DEMANDS** NSA
DELIVER TRANSPAR**E**NCY, PHONE RECORDS*

In recent days, it has become known that the United States National
Security Agency obtained a secret court order two months ago requiring the
telecommunications company Verizon to hand over vast amounts of data. Under
the order issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the
NSA may collect data on calls that include Verizon
subscribers; this data includes the phone numbers of those involved in the
call, location data, and length. The court order does not provide for the
collection of details on the contents of the conversations held by Verizon
subscribers and their contacts.

The United States Pirate Party condemns the actions of the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court and the NSA for infringing on the privacy
of American citizens and peoples abroad. The
USPP demands that future FISA court orders are reasonably limited
and condemns the secretive operation of FISA, which should, when possible,
make public information regarding requests for data relating to American
Citizens.

"American citizens as well as individual members of the international
community have been robbed of their privacies by the United States
Government over the past two decades," says Captain Lindsay-Anne
Brunner. "These issues that the mainstream press are suddenly talking about
are in no way isolated, random instances, and should not be recognized
as such. The American people need to put immense pressure on their
legislators to enact laws preventing further gross violation of privacies
by this government."

It has also come to light that the FBI and NSA have been indiscriminately
mining user data from several websites run by US companies in a series of
acts that violate the privacy of millions of people worldwide. This
program, known publicly as PRISM, has been going on unchecked by the public
eye, and the USPP demands this rampant violation of privacy stop. A
government actively spying on its own citizens is unconscionable and not
representative of the democratic nature of this country.

The United States Pirate Party calls upon Congress to investigate these
crimes carefully and make use of the checks and balances that the Framers
gave them by passing comprehensive legislation to stop the systematic
practice of the United States Government spying on its own people. We ask
that Congress help us re-affirm privacy as a human and constitutional right.


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For more information or to schedule a press interview contact Captain
Lindsay-Anne Brunner at 818-724-7662 or via email at
kusanagi.chroma at gmail.com
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