Stamp: CISPA IS BACK AGAIN. FFFFF

Update 3: February 2013: The House cybersecurity bill that allows the National Security Agency and the military to collect your private internet records is scheduled for another appearance on Wednesday. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-MI) and Ranking Member Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD) will reintroduce the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), which news reports say will be the same bill that passed the House of Representatives last year.

Update 2: CISPA and CSA failed in the Senate! Yay! But it's important to keep notified about similar bills - so be sure to drop by Privacy is Awesome to sign up and be notified when your help will be needed again!


Updated:
CISPA has passed the House of Representatives vote while having some amendments added onto the original bill that are supposedly meant to "moderate" its effects, but in actuality will do the opposite.

Expanded the government's power by adding more items to the list of acceptable purposes for which shared information can be used

Click here to see the amendments.


CISPA (Cyper Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act) gives the government access to our personal information in a whole new way. It allows both private business and the government to share information about cyber threats.

Cyber threats are supposed to be anything making "efforts to degrade, disrupt or destroy" vital networks. Or anything that makes a threat or misappropriation of information owned by the government or private businesses.

While SOPA put companies at risk for subscriber activity, CISPA will reward company for collecting data, intercepting or modifying communications, and providing the government with information. CISPA is built with companies in mind, so we likely will not see any blackouts in protest, like Wikipedia had.


Related:

A Letter to All Senators Regarding CISPADear Senator (Insert your name here),

I've realized that CISPA or the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act will do more harm to American citizens as well has American government than it may suggest. Instead of protecting Americans from cyber-security threats as it has suggested, it would instead force websites that your voters as well as millions of Americans use to hand over their personal information and read their emails causing very serious privacy issues. CISPA has also used extremely vague terms in order for corporations to hunt down internet users and accuse them for copyright infringement without a trial and jury. There as b

Super-SOPA CISPA (UPDATED)EDIT Adding some links to Petitions. Here and Here I didn't really jump on top of SOPA when it was big, but fancy me - always being late to the party - I just learned about CISPA, and that it is being voted on today, April 23.  So I'll just leave this information with you - folks, I expect you'll do the right thing by calling your representatives and letting them know your feelings on the subject...   Cispa Sponsors confident of the bill's passage.
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