While we were all distracted with Boston and other events, the US
House of Representatives has passed the controversial Cyber Intelligence
Sharing and Protect Act (CISPA).
For those of you that don't know what CISPA is or what it could
mean:
The bill has effectively no protections for the privacy of its
users, and it potentially a huge violation of the 4th amendment. As the
procedure for getting an unconstitutional law stricken requires a Supreme Court
trial, this could amount to 4-5 years of abuses of privacy on the Internet.
To make it clear how bad this could be. AOL once published search
data for a research project, and they thought it was properly anonymous,
however with analysis of just the search terms it was possible to positively
identify people.
So, imagine every weird query you've typed into Google. Now
imagine that every time you type something, a copy of it goes to the government
as you're typing it, and they've analysed it for criminal behaviour before
you've pressed the enter key.
For more information, read the Electronic Frontier Foundation
(EFF) FAQ on CISPA: https://www.eff.org/cybersecurity-bill-faq
Electronic Frontier Foundation wants you to get involved in their
action campaign against CISPA. You can go to the site and fill in the blanks to
send a quick note to your representatives asking them to oppose CISPA.
Learn more about it here: https://action.eff.org/o/9042/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=9137a
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