A coalition of over 80 organizations and Internet companies on Tuesday sent a letter to Congress calling for a public investigation into recently revealed National Security Agency surveillance programs. The full letter and list of signatories include the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Mozilla and reddit.
The coalition launched a website to accompany the letter, stopwatching.us, that advocates for congressional disclosure of spying activities. Laura Poitras, the filmmaker who has a byline on the Washington Post story that broke the news of the NSA’s PRISM Internet surveillance program, is highlighted on the website as a private signatory.
The full list of coalition members is below:
4Chan
Access
Advocacy for Principled Action in Government
The AIDS Policy Project, Philadelphia
American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression
American Civil Liberties Union
American Civil Liberties Union of California
American Library Association
Amicus
Association of Research Libraries
Bill of Rights Defense Committee
Boing Boing
Breadpig
Calyx Institute
Canvas
Center for Democracy and Technology
Center for Digital Democracy
Center for Financial Privacy and Human Rights
Center for Media and Democracy
Center for Media Justice
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Consumer Action
Consumer Watchdog
CorpWatch
CREDO Mobile
Cyber Privacy Project
Daily Kos
Defending Dissent Foundation
Demand Progress
Detroit Digital Justice Coalition
Digital Fourth
Downsize DC
DuckDuckGo
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Entertainment Consumers Association
Fight for the Future
Floor64
Foundation for Innovation and Internet Freedom
Free Press Action Fund
Free Software Foundation
Freedom of the Press Foundation
FreedomWorks
Friends of Privacy USA
Get FISA Right
Government Accountability Project
Greenpeace USA
Institute of Popular Education of Southern California
Internet Archive
isen.com, LLC
Knowledge Ecology International
Law Life Culture
Liberty Coalition
May First/People Link
Media Alliance
Media Mobilizing Project, Philadelphia
Mozilla
Namecheap
National Coalition Against Censorship
New Sanctuary Coalition of NYC
Open Technology Institute
OpenMedia.org
Participatory Politics Foundation
Patient Privacy Rights
People for the American Way
Personal Democracy Media
PolitiHacks
Privacy and Access Council of Canada
Public Interest Advocacy Centre (Ottawa, Canada)
Public Knowledge
Privacy Activism
Privacy Camp
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
Privacy Times
Represent.us
Rights Working Group
Rocky Mountain Civil Liberties Association
RootsAction.org
Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic
Sunlight Foundation
Taxpayers Protection Alliance
TechFreedom
TURN-The Utility Reform Network
Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center
William C. Velasquez Institute
World Wide Web Foundation