Last Monday, a number of organizations, companies, and individuals came together for a Week of Action against the dangerous cybersecurity bill, CISPA. Though thousands of people answered our call to action, the fight is far from over.

CISPA—which will be marked up and voted upon in the House in mid-April—bypasses existing privacy laws by giving overly broad legal immunity to companies who share users' private information, including the content of communications, with the government. It allows companies to disclose users' data directly to the NSA, a military agency that operates secretly and without public accountability, as well as to a large number of government agencies. Broad definitions that allow users' sensitive personal information to be used for a range of purposes, including for "national security," not just computer and network security.

Over 15,000 people in the past week contacted their members of Congress using EFF's action center, urging them to oppose the broadly worded bill. To date, Congress has received messages from a total of over 37,000 individuals.

In addition, 7,000 concerned individuals from around the world have signed onto EFF’s petition urging President Barack Obama to renew his promise to veto CISPA. And many more spoke out on Twitter using our Twitter tool and the hashtag #CISPAalert. Along with campaigns from Fight for the Future, Access, ACLU, Demand Progress, and the22 Daily Kos, over 150,000 people took action in the past week alone.

In case you missed it, here's what we wrote about:

For more on CISPA's problematic provisions, check out our comprehensive FAQ and our cybersecurity page. And be sure to take action and spread the word.

A huge thanks to everybody who took action, including the major organizations and companies that joined EFF in this important fight:

Abine

Access

ACLU

Advocacy for Principled Action in Government

Alexis Ohanian, Co-founder of Reddit

American Association of Law Libraries

American Library Association

Association of Research Libraries

Bill of Rights Defense Committee

CALPIRG

Center for Democracy & Technology

Center for Digital Democracy

Center for Financial Privacy and Human Rights

Competitive Enterprise Institute

The Constitution Project

Consumer Watchdog

DailyKos

Demand Progress

DownsizeDC.org

DuckDuckGo

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Entertainment Consumers Association

Fight for the Future

Free Press Action Fund

Gandi

Government Accountability Project

IFEX

Internet Defense League

Liberty Coalition

Mozilla

Namecheap

National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute

NY Tech Meetup

OpenMedia

Personal Democracy Media

Politihacks

Privacy Rights Clearinghouse

Privacy Times

Reddit

TechFreedom