White Home to reply to anti-CISPA petition
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing plus Protection Act (CISPA), the newest attempt by the US legislative branch to hinder online flexibility, only received a immense blow from worried residents. On the official White Home petition website, an anti-CISPA petition has reached 100,000 signatures. That’s not only a big quantity — it’s the minimal requirement for a required reaction within the White Home. The Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA) as well as the Preventing Real Internet Threats to Economic Creativity plus Theft of Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) were effectively halted last year following near-universal outcry from web people plus web leaders like Wikipedia plus Google. Then, CISPA is seeing similar backlash. While CISPA isn’t focused about piracy like SOPA plus PIPA, it nonetheless delivers the US government the ability to legally spy about its citizens’ traffic with little-to-no roadblocks. Last year, the White Home prepared it obvious which CISPA will be vetoed [...]
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Stop CISPA? Cybersecurity bill adds six new co-sponsors in two days
Despite efforts to stop the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, better known as CISPA, the bill has gained six more co-sponsors in the past two days, bringing the total to 112. Since the launch on Monday of a concerted effort by Internet and civil liberty advocates to stop the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) in its tracks, the bill has gained six new co-sponsors in the House of Representatives. That’s right gained, not lost. On Monday, April 16, Reps. Steve Austria (R-OH), Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Ralph Hall (R-TX), Doug Lamborn (R-CO), and Mick Mulvaney (R-SC) signed on as co-sponsors of CISPA. The next day, Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon (R-CA) joined in as well. These additions bring the total number of CISPA co-sponsors to 112, up from the March 29 total of 106. In addition to the added support in the House, CISPA has enjoyed increasingly robust support [...]
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CISPA Monitoring Bill: Just the Facts
Image: Courtesy of DigitalTrendsInternet activists are sounding the alarms on the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, a bill that’s headed for a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives. CISPA would give private companies new ways to share information about cyber-threats with the U.S. government, and vice versa. Although its purpose is quite different from SOPA and PIPA–the anti-piracy bills that were protested out of Congressional consideration last January–CISPA has angered many of the same opponents due to its promise of broad new powers for the government. (The use of a catchy acronym probably helps, too.) [Read the full text of the CISPA bill or a summary.] But is CISPA really as bad as its detractors are claiming? Read on for a full explanation The Basics on CISPA CISPA would allow the U.S. government and private companies to communicate more freely about cyber-security threat information. The intelligence [...]
CISPA security bill threatens net freedom
So SOPA got swept under the carpet in the US, now a new acronym bearing threat has emerged We’re all likely familiar with SOPA, the anti-piracy legislation pushed by the US film, music and software industries, which eventually died in the face of massive protests (featuring various high-profile measures such as Wikipedia’s one day blackout). Now there’s a new threat to internet freedom on the American legislative horizon, and its name is CISPA or the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. What this aims to do, on the face of it, is allow companies and the government to share data in the interests of national security, to protect against possible terrorist and other such actions. However, the bill is so scarily wide ranging and non-specific, it pretty much gives the US government the power to sidestep existing privacy safeguards and pretty much do what they want in terms of monitoring [...]
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