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End the NSA’s Invasive Call Detail Records Program Once and for All Over nearly two decades, the NSA has searched millions of Americans’ telephone call records—all without a warrant or, for the vast majority of these calls, any suspicion of wrongdoing. It’s time to end the mass telephone Call Detail Records (CDR) program once and for all. Please join us in urging Congress to support the Ending Mass Collection of Americans ’ Phone Records Act ( S. 936 , H.R. 1942 ). Take Action Tell Congress to End the CDR Program Under the CDR program, the NSA has collected information about millions of Americans’ phone calls. While these records don’t contain the actual contents of telephone calls, they do include phone numbers and call times and length—more than enough information to provide the NSA a clear picture of our social relationships, interests, and affiliations. If the NSA knows that you called a suicide hotline at 1:00 in the morning , does it matter that the agency doesn’t have t...

Texas: Don’t Let the Legislature Gut Your State’s Free Speech Laws A bill is moving forward in the Texas Legislature that would make it easier to bring baseless lawsuits against Internet users in the state who review businesses, speak anonymously, or otherwise exercise their First Amendment rights. If you’re a Texan, we need you to contact your lawmakers and speak up for free speech. The bill, HB 2730 , would gut key protections of the Texas Citizens Participation Act, or TCPA. The TCPA was passed in 2011 to help fight back against lawsuits meant to silence free speech, which are sometimes called SLAPPs—which stands for Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation. The Texas anti-SLAPP law’s robust speech protections have made it a national model.  Properly crafted anti-SLAPP laws provide critical protections for speech. While the state laws are different, they generally allow individuals targeted by the suits to get them thrown out early and allow targets of the lawsuits t...