Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, following a recent anti-piracy legislative debacle with SOPA and PIPA, will lead his second effort of 2012 to push Internet-regulating legislation, this time in the form of a new cybersecurity bill. The expected bill is the latest attempt by the Democrats to broadly expand the authority of executive branch agencies over the Internet.
Details about the bill remain shrouded in secrecy. Clues available to the public suggest that the bill might be stronger than President Barack Obama’s cybersecurity proposal, which was released in May 2011. Reid said that he would bring the bill — expected to come out of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, chaired by Connecticut independent Sen. Joe Lieberman — to the floor during the first Senate work period of 2012.
A classified meeting behind closed doors in October 2011 between key Senate committee leaders with jurisdiction over cybersecurity and White House officials, took place at the request of the Obama administration. Lieberman, in an interview with The Hill in October, said that past Senate cybersecurity bills were considerably stronger than the White House proposal.
The White House proposal recommended that the Department of Homeland Security be given broad regulatory authority for cybersecurity matters over civilian networks. The White House proposal also recommends that the DHS program be “developed in consultation with privacy and civil liberties experts and with the approval of the Attorney General.”
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4 comments:
whatever you do, don't rise up and get angry about this. don't call, email or write and certainly don't tell others. then it will just come into law and there isn't a d__n thing anyone will be able to do. ok, have it your way !!!!!
Is this the one hiding behind "preventing internet child porn"? Or have they come up with a newer, better mask? Be wary, my friends. These bills will keep being introduced one after the other until someone breaks down. DON'T!
Instead of, as the White House says, developing this bill in secrecy, "in consultation with privacy and civil liberties experts....." ---WHOSE "privacy experts???--- the same ones who develpoed the Patriot Act???, how about doing what is SUPPPOSED to be done? Make the bill's details PUBLIC and let the citizens and their supposed "representtatives" decide if thats what they want. THIS is a wonderful indicator of how much our leaders, such as they are, think of OUR rights to know about the laws they enact and our right to supervise their work. They DON'T want or think they need OUR input or that we have any say in any of the process. Thay are much too smart to require our permission. See the previous article on Thomas Jefferson for a clue on our rights.....
The government is going to screw us one way or another. It will happen. We need to be ready.
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