Activists Plan Online Protest Against NSA Surveillance Tuesday

"The Day We Fight Back"

On Tuesday, a little more than two years after the "blackout" in opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), Internet freedom activists are officially "planning a day of protest against mass surveillance" aimed at the National Security Agency.

In a movement called "The Day We Fight Back," thousands of websites will host a banner urging people to call Congress in opposition to the FISA Improvements Act, which was approved by the Senate Intelligence Committee and its chairman, Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.). The ACLU called the act "a dream come true for the NSA" that would "codify the NSA's unconstitutional call-records program and allow bulk collection of location data from mobile phone users."

Feinstein, however, defended the bill when it was originally approved by the Senate Intelligence Committee in October.