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CISPA 3.0: the Senate's New Bill As Bad As Ever

Posted by Soulskill on from the i-blame-easter dept.

Daniel_Stuckey writes: "CISPA is back for a third time—it has lost the 'P,' but it's just as bad for civil liberties as ever. The Senate Intelligence Committee is considering a new cybersecurity bill that contains many of the provisions that civil liberties groups hated about the Cybersecurity Information Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA). Most notably, under the proposed bill companies could not be sued for incorrectly sharing too much customer information with the federal government, and broad law enforcement sharing could allow for the creation of backdoor wiretaps. The bill, called the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2014, was written by Senate Intelligence Chair Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) and is currently circulating around the committee right now but has not yet been introduced. Right now, the bill is only a 'discussion draft,' and the committee is still looking to make revisions to the bill before it is officially introduced."

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  1. Sorry, Mr. Becket by fche · · Score: 4, Funny

    Will no one rid me of this turbulent senator?

    1. Re:Sorry, Mr. Becket by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      I've never voted for her since I don't share her views.

      Sharing.

      There's that word again.

      "I am working with Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) on bipartisan legislation to facilitate the sharing of cyber related information among companies and with the government and to provide protection from liability,"

      I see it a lot in marketingspeak too. "This is how we share your private information with our marketing affiliates..."

      Why is it when individuals share the secrets of governments and corporations amongst themselves, it's "stealing" or "leaking," but when governments and corporations steal and resell our secrets to each other, it's called "sharing?"

      Orwell would be proud in more ways than one. Difi doubleplusgood duckspeak blackwhite doublethink.

    2. Re:Sorry, Mr. Becket by BiIl_the_Engineer · · Score: 4, Insightful

      There are certainly a lot of RINOs and DINOs. The problem with terms like these is that they make it seem as if the parties aren't filled with these scumbags, but they are; the parties themselves are evil. This isn't just a few people; it's the entire parties.

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  2. Eventually it goes through by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They will simply continue to refluff the bill and push it on us again and again until it passes.

    The US government is a corrupt oligarchy and needs to be torn down.

  3. Surprise! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Oh, look, Feinstein is once again taking action to fuck over the populace while positioning herself (and friends) in the elite ruling class.

    Isn't that shocking?

  4. When will this end by litehacksaur111 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think it would be nice if congress went on recess forever instead of returning to enact shit like this.

  5. Eternal Vigilance by Tokolosh · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Agree with them or not, the NRA knows what is needed to protect their favorite amendment.

    We need to adopt similar structures and systems. To me, the EFF is a good rallying point, so I urge you to give all the support you can. I say, without irony, "Think of your children."

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    1. Re:Eternal Vigilance by BiIl_the_Engineer · · Score: 4, Funny

      Agree with them or not, the NRA knows what is needed to protect their favorite amendment.

      Obviously not, since they've accepted some amount of gun control.

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  6. They learned it from us? by mmell · · Score: 4, Funny
    I don't steal mp3's, I share them.

    Not saying it's right, just that it's so.

  7. Re:Let's try an experiment. by mellon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or, instead, here's a thought: go find out if your senator is on the Senate Intelligence Committee. If so, call them and tell them you don't want the bill to get out of committee. Explain why. Extra credit: go read TFA so that you know why before calling. But if you don't want to do that, you can always just tell the staffer that you don't like the bill. Make sure you don't identify it as "CISPA" since that's not its current name.

  8. Thank you, US by johanw · · Score: 4, Interesting

    For destroying your own cloud industry and giving companies in other countries a better market. I hear already commercials each morning on the radio when I drive to work about a local Dutch company (KPN) advertizing their cloud because no forieghn governments have access to it.

    Cisco and Juniper will be pleased too when they find that more customers move to Huawei. At least the Chinese are not interested in "regime changes" in other countries.