Continuations

I have written about CISPA a lot but today is the first important vote on this legislation. If you haven’t done so already, please contact your representatives to let them know you are against this bill. As a reminder it provides for overly broad data sharing between private enterprises and government without any safeguards around how government can use this data. Now it is easier to be against something when you can also be for a credible alternative. What should that be? There are many priv...

I don’t know whether to be upset or happy about the machinations that went on yesterday and resulted in the House passing CISPA with a 248-168 vote. There were critical last minute changes to the bill that vastly enhance the government’s ability to use the data for things other than national security. Three more incredibly broad areas of use were added to the bill literally last minute: investigation and prosecution of cybersecurity crime, protection of individuals, and protection of children...

I wrote a blog post last week about the current Privacy Theater in the US, where the government is simultaneously pushing stricter privacy regulations and huge backdoors that would completely undermine privacy. The backdoors come in the form of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act or CISPA. The folks at Lumin Consulting have put together a good infographic that illustrates how CISPA undermines privacy: I am actually sympathetic to the basic idea behind CISPA, which is to make it ...