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When my phone records were purchased for less than a hundred dollars in January, I joined millions of Americans who worry about the invasion of their privacy. Now, the Associated Press has revealed that federal and local law enforcement agencies "bypassed subpoenas and warrants designed to protect civil liberties and gathered Americans' personal telephone records from private-sector data brokers".

Unscrupulous data vendors are bad enough. But the government using these brokers to access our personal telephone records without getting necessary warrants? Government can't make laws and then break them. That constitutes a real abuse of power, and it's illegal. These actions remind me of the actions taken by other governments that would cynically make laws that they knew they would break. We called such governments undemocratic and anti-American. We said that they didn't respect freedom and dignity of every individual.

So, I urge you to contact your Senators and urge them to pass the Schumer/Specter Bill, S. 2178, to restore to people the peace of mind that comes with privacy.