DownsizeDC.org is part of a coalition of 30 organizations expressing privacy concerns in bill H.R. 1981, the “Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act.”
Section 4 of the bill would, for the first time, “force companies that provide Internet access to keep large volumes of records on their customers.” Contrary to the title of the bill, “the records would involve all Internet users everywhere and they would be available to law enforcement for any purpose.”
This is an invasion of the privacy of “hundreds of millions of Americans who have no connection to the sexual exploitation of children whatsoever.”
This is why we sent a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith and Ranking Member John Conyers opposing this provision.