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Monday, February 18, 2013

Stop CISPA: The Internet Spying Bill is Back in Congress

If at first you don’t succeed in implementing total state surveillance on your citizenry, try and try again. These guys are just unbelievable. From the EFF:

It’s official: The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act was reintroduced in the House of Representatives yesterday. CISPA is the contentious bill civil liberties advocates fought last year, which would provide a poorly-defined “cybersecurity” exception to existing privacy law. CISPA offers broad immunities to companies who choose to share data with government agencies (including the private communications of users) in the name of cybersecurity. It also creates avenues for companies to share data with any federal agencies, including military intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency (NSA).

As others have noted, “CISPA is deeply flawed. Under a broad cybersecurity umbrella, it permits companies to share user communications directly with the super secret NSA and permits the NSA to use that information for non-cybersecurity reasons. This risks turning the cybersecurity program into a back door intelligence surveillance program run by a military entity with little transparency or public accountability.”

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The internet is the primary source for real news and information not twisted by the MSM and communication resource for true patriots. Of course the Obama administration has to have surviellance of it and/or severely restrict it like their hero's the Chi-comms.

Anonymous said...

I wrote to all. Please, folks, stop here and write Andy, McDermott, and the rest. It's that important.Mathias,