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CISPA's Author Has Another Privacy-Killing Bill To Pass Before He Retires
Daniel_Stuckey writes: "You might remember House Intelligence Chair Mike Rogers, a Republican from Michigan, from his lovely, universally-hated CISPA cybersecurity bill that would have allowed nearly seamless information sharing between companies and the federal government. You might also remember him from his c'est la vie attitude towards civil liberties in general. Well, we've got some good news and some bad news: Rogers announced today that he won't seek re-election and is instead retiring from politics to start a conservative talk radio show on Cumulus. The bad news? He's got at least one terrible, civil liberties-killing bill to try to push through Congress before he goes. Like CISPA, the newly introduced 'FISA Transparency and Modernization Act,' seeks to make it easier for the federal government to get your information from companies."
the bleeding must stop before the healing can begin.. http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=disarmament&sm=3
I just hope the voters in his Dist. see fit to vote for someone that believes more in the constitution.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
A Republican, you say? So we're back to posting party affiliations prominently in the summaries?
Wow that's not a biased summary or anything. I had to check and make sure I wasn't over on MSNBC when I read this.
Let's find every paper copy of this piece of shit and shove it back where it came from, up Mike Rogers' ass.
Might as well - you know half the comments will be about party affiliation anyway, and then a bunch of comments will be about whether it's really this government's fault, or the one before it, etc.
Also, while politicians are annoying, talk show hosts can be much worse. If successful, he could pollute, I mean sway, the mind of quite a few people and get his way in the end without needing to be a politician.
It should flow freely. How people react and how they use it is a very different story.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
....makes me giggle.
Cloudiot: A person who does not see offsite storage as a way to lose control over access to his or her own data.
to start a conservative talk radio show
It amazes me how, in this day and age, a demonstrably-fascist douchebag like this asshole can disguise his obvious big-government, Hamiltonian (i.e. classic textbook "liberal") nature by calling himself "conservative." Then again, considering how dumbed-down and ignorant the populace has become, I guess it should come as no surprise that the electorate (particularly the senile, white-haired contingent) has absolutely no idea what "conservative" is supposed to mean. Hint: it's correct usage (at least in America English; it has an altogether different meaning in the UK/Europe) implies that one is in favor of Jeffersonian ideals, which run completely counter to Alexander Hamilton's Federalist (i.e. "liberal") beliefs...
Why does every one of these people campaign on a platform of "government is the problem, reduce the size of the government!", and then once in office, immediately create bills that INCREASE the size of government, pry into your personal life such as who you sleep with, and if you're a woman, even when you can have sex, and generally make it so that government *is* indeed the problem because *they* made it so?
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
We welcome him with a lot of calls. Remember to be nice to the prescreeners.
"Like CISPA, the newly introduced 'FISA Transparency and Modernization Act,' seeks to make it easier for the federal government to get your information from companies."
Newsflash! The govt and companies already 'share' your information without any CISPA / FISA law. And, what difference does republican / democrat make? Nothing - they both want this type of action to continue.
Make it sound good to the people.
Forget that we are reducing transparency, not enhancing.
This Slashdot article...
""You might remember House Intelligence Chair Mike Rogers, a Republican from Michigan, from his lovely, universally-hated CISPA cybersecurity bill that would have allowed nearly seamless information sharing between companies and the federal government."
Or this one...
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...
"Several readers sent word that California State Senator Leland Yee was arrested today. He's accused of conspiring to traffic guns and commit wire fraud, to defraud citizens of honest services, and bribery. The complant (PDF) also names 25 other defendants. Yee is known for pushing legislation that would ban the sale of violent video games to minors. "Federal prosecutors also allege Yee agreed to perform official acts in exchange for the money, including one instance in which he introduced a businessman to state legislators who had significant influence over pending medical marijuana legislation. In exchange, the businessman -- who was actually an undercover FBI agent -- agreed to donate thousands to Yee's campaign fund, according to the indictment. The indictment also describes an August 2013 exchange in which [former school board president Keith Jackson] told an undercover officer that Yee had an arms trafficking contact. Jackson allegedly said Yee could facilitate a meeting for a donation."
Here's a hint:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
I noticed in the article,
There we go again, the common theme. We fight for your rights, we fight for your privacy, we fight the tiniest encroachment that could potentially dissuade you from exercising a right, or even make it inconvenient to exercise a right! Unless the subject is guns, then fuck your rights.
The bill stops bulk collection but allows for enforced request of data after the fact without any judicial oversight. Sounds to me like a good way to privatize what the NSA is already doing anyway. All this legal talk is moot because no-one up there gives two shits or one fuck about the law anyway. Fuck it - we should just give root access of every computer to the government. Let's see how that goes.
when people who claim to be conservatives are front and center in efforts to invade people's privacy or their lives in general.
Whether this situation, the banning of books at libraries, abortion or anything other matter involving one's personal freedoms, conservatives seem to go out of their way to be hypocrites when talking about freedom.
I guess it's easier to talk the talk than it is to walk the walk.
Sort of like when businesses decry government regulation or intrusion into their practices then turn around and come to the taxpayer asking for money.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
So we have the Republicans how act like Daddy and tells you what is morally correct and tries to force it with laws. Then we have Mommy Democrats who tells you how to behave with others and spend your money. How about we get a 3rd party (maybe a few) that agree to stay out of or personal and finacial lives.
I cant see any reason we need to make it easier for companies to turn metadata or straight up personal data to the government. And both parties fall over themselves when it comes to self serving federal laws.
And for those people complain that a libertarian party are the ones who would allow EPA disasters, schools to go unfunded, no fire/police departments are just using scare tactics to keep the status quo. So damn simple... Keep the gov outta our personal, private and capitalist transactions. Why is this so hard to understand?
Rogers and his ilk just like peeking at their neighbors. When he retires from politics and moves back home, make certain you don't leave your curtains open. He probably has a telescope.
Have gnu, will travel.
And they say Snowden is the bad guy! Sheesh!
"Mike Rogers, a Republican from Michigan" is the one (of several, no doubt) that should be tried for treason, not Snowden.
I'm starting to feel like America just needs to get their act together and kill off the people who want to ruin things from the top. Peacefully protesting and lobbying against this guy obviously haven't worked, but a rope will.
TFA acknowledges that the bill is pretty much a big list of things the government will not be allowed to do, aka smaller government.
The summary is largely a lie (shocking, I know). The article takes issue with the fact that among all of the restrictions it puts on the government, it also repeats one phrase in existing law as it adds more restrictions to that phrase.
Current law is that the intelligence agency can get [spy on foreign persons] if they have a "reasonable and articulable suspicion". This bill says that even with "reasonable and articulable suspicion", it still must follow fourth amendment guidelines, must not be triggered by aything protected by the first amendment, must not include the contents of any communication (only metadata), etc. The author of TFA is making a big deal about the fact that the bill mentions "reasonable and articulable suspicion", but that's ALREADY current law. This bill adds restrictions to such inquiries.
That would explain the incompetence.
few months ago watching "The Anderson Tapes" (early 1970s) and near end of movie police searching building for more robbery suspects find some equipment tapped into some of the buildings phone lines. Senior officer says, "whoever set this up better have a warrant!" Later the 'snoops' that have been tracking character played by Sean Connery erased and purged all the tapes of conversations they recorded because they could get in big trouble as none of it was authorized by the courts. Fast forward to these days, meh, that kind of storyline is totally ridiculous. There are other such movies back in the days when people did respect legalities of wiretapping and eavesdropping. Of course there were shenanigans played out by some govt agencies but they knew they were doing wrong so they had to cover it up. These days, they don't because "it's ok."
mfwright@batnet.com
with a baseball bat to the head. Problem solved.
I'm not an American, but this guy sounds like he gets his playbook mailed to him as a personal menoir from Vladimir Putin. Just sayin'.
If we did not allow those data collection from companies they would have nothing to give. Thay would not be able either to facilitate spamming or phone calls at dinner time....
Thanks, I looked it up and it really made my day :)
I really don't care. They won't see any data from my users anyway, because I am building services around decentralized user data.