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We also have a team dedicated to just International issues, including many that affect Canada! Here are two recent blog posts on our neighbors to the north: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/11/northern-exposure-unmasking-online-spying-canada & https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/canada-warrantless%20digital%20surveillance

Hi, great question. We've been following the situation in Ireland very closely, and we're deeply concerned. Recently, we launched a worldwide campaign to track efforts to turn Internet intermediaries into copyright police: https://globalchokepoints.org/ Through Global Chokepoints, we'll be working to coordinate worldwide activism against these misguided copyright initiatives. Check out the page we have on Ireland: https://globalchokepoints.org/countries/ireland This is going to be our anchor page for fighting misguided copyright initiatives in Ireland, and we'll coordinate with groups in Ireland. Stay tuned.

Stay tuned.

Congress wants to appear as if it’s doing “something” about Internet security. But the truth is that the proposals they’re suggesting don’t address most of the major network security issues. From social engineering to two-step authentication, from the broken CA system to encrypting the web, there are concrete and real issues around network security that can and should be addressed (though a lot of them aren’t legislative solutions). Instead of grappling with these issues, Congress is trying to push an information “sharing” bill that would undermine existing privacy laws.

EFF has a petition that is available for people outside of the United States: https://action.eff.org/o/9042/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=9137 It calls on Obama to veto the bill. Several other organizations are running petitions against the bill that are open to people outside the United States, including Access: https://www.accessnow.org/page/s/protect-our-privacy

You can also raise awareness by blogging and tweeting, or writing articles for your local publications. You can also tweet at directly to members of Congress using the EFF tool: https://cyberspying.eff.org/