UPDATE: The omnibus package was released late Wednesday, March 21st and Congressional leaders have in fact attached the anti-privacy CLOUD Act to it.

Member of Congress from both parties are pushing for a new bill that endangers civil liberties and human rights by making it easier for police departments to obtain and monitor our data—and they’re trying to railroad it through Congress without time for public debate by attaching it to the must-pass Omnibus spending bill.

The so-called CLOUD Act would hand police departments in the U.S. and other countries new powers to directly collect data from tech companies instead of requiring them to first get a warrant. It would even let foreign governments wiretap inside the U.S. without having to comply with U.S. Wiretap Act restrictions.

Major tech companies like Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Oath are supporting the bill because it makes their lives easier by relinquishing their responsibility to protect their users’ data from cops. And they’ve been throwing their lobby power behind getting the CLOUD Act attached to the omnibus government spending bill.

If the CLOUD Act gets added to the omnibus bill, there will be little to zero chance to amend it.

Sign the petition to tell your members of Congress: “I urge you to defend my privacy rights by rejecting the CLOUD Act and any attempts to attach it to must-pass government spending bills.”

If passed, the the CLOUD Act (S. 2383 and H.R. 4943) would:

• Give U.S. law enforcement the power to access our data anywhere in the world, no matter what country that data is stored in, while bypassing current privacy requirements.

• Allow the U.S. president to enter international agreements, without Congressional approval, that allow foreign governments to directly obtain data in the U.S.—while ignoring U.S. privacy laws.

• Give foreign states new spying powers inside the U.S.

• Allow foreign governments to collect data directly from U.S. companies without requiring a U.S. warrant.

Right now, Congress is trying to ram this bill into a must-pass government spending bill in an attempt to dodge the public. Don’t let them get away with this. Sign the petition now.