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This is the power of an informed public.

Edward Snowden, letter on behalf of Amnesty International on privacy of an individual. Ending mass surveillance of private phone calls under the Patriot Act is a historic victory for the rights of every citizen. Yet while we have reformed this one program, many others remain.   This is because of you. This is the power of an informed public. Ending mass surveillance, what does it mean? - you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say. We can't take the right to privacy for granted, just like we can't take the right to free speech for granted. We can't let these invasions of our rights stand. 'Never have I been so grateful to have been so wrong'. In solidarity, Edward Snowden, for Amnesty International