Anti-surveillance petition gathers enough signatures for White House response

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http://pando.com/2013/12/12/anti-surveillance-petition-out-does-the-death-star-white-house-must-now-respond/



Anti-surveillance petition out-does the Death Star. White House must now respond
By Hamish McKenzie
On December 12, 2013

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Despite a bipartisan “Day of Action” last week led by the Center for Democracy and Technology, where Stanley is campaign and communications strategist, the petition had only 60,000 signatures on it with just a couple of days remaining.

That total would have been fine pre-January this year, when the White House’s threshhold for an official response to We The People petitions was set at just 25,000 signatures. But after the White House was compelled to reply to a public call for the US to build a Death Star, it increased the requirement to 100,000 signatures. And so the CDT made a gargantuan final push for supporters over social media and email blasts.

It worked. Today, the petition crept past the milestone, which means The White House must now address its central concern, which is:

“We call on the Obama Administration to support ECPA reform and to reject any special rules that would force online service providers to disclose our email without a warrant.”