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La loi CISPA prête à prendre la suite des lois anti-piratage PIPA et SOPA. Mise à jour : Interrogé par le Guardian, un membre de l'administation Obama a indiqué que le gouvernement des Etats-Unis s'opposait à l'adoption de la loi CISPA, qui fera l'objet d'un vote vendredi à la Chambre des Représentants. "Nous voulons une loi qui soit accompagnée des protections nécessaires pour les particuliers", a-t-il précisé. Ron Paul, candidat républicain à l'élection présidentielle, s'est également opposé avec vigueur à l'adoption du texte. "CISPA permet à la fois au gouvernement fédéral et aux sociétés privées de consulter vos communications en ligne privées sans contrôle judiciaire, pourvu qu'elles le fassent au nom de la cybersécurité.

Dit plus simplement, Cispa encourage certaines de nos entreprises qui ont le plus de succès sur Internet à agir comme des espions du gouvernement". Article du 7 avril 2012 - Outre-Atlantique, l'effervescence législative a de quoi laisser songeur. Il n'en fallait pas moins pour que les premières réactions de la société civile émergent. CISPA is back: worst Internet law since SOPA needs you to fight it! CISPA is a sweeping, privacy-annihilating Internet law that we killed last year. The Congressmen who introduced it haven't learned their lesson and they've reintroduced it.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, right? We killed CISPA once before. We will kill CISPA again. It only works if you take part. Last year, Representatives Rogers and Ruppersberger introduced CISPA, which would create a gaping new exemption to existing privacy law. CISPA is Back. (Image: eye of providence, a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike (2.0) image from emperley3's photostream) Litigation Finance predators: champetry loves company Litigation Finance involves loaning people money in return for the right to finance a lawsuit in their names. Prison islands Ruined and strangely beautiful, the island prison of Coiba was once a truly ugly place.

Countersuit: Georgia can't copyright its laws Get This Amazon Web Services Certification Bundle For Just $19 Step up your organization game with the Rolo travel bag. White House will oppose CISPA in its current form. As an amended version of CISPA nears a vote on the House floor, the White House has once again stated that it has fundamental problems with the cybersecurity bill in its current form. In an official policy statement, the Obama Administration said that lawmakers had not addressed several issues regarding information-sharing and privacy, and that "if the bill, as currently crafted, were presented to the President, his senior advisors would recommend that he veto the bill.

" Instead, it urged a continuing dialog between Congress and the President in order to create a more acceptable version. Specifically, the White House remains concerned that CISPA does not require companies to "take reasonable steps" to strip personal information when sharing user data with the government or other businesses. This has been a major point of contention between CISPA supporters and civil libertarians, who worry that the bill would give companies immunity for swapping user data inappropriately. House passes Cispa cybersecurity bill despite warnings from White House | Technology.

The House of Representatives passed a controversial cybersecurity bill on Thursday in the face of warnings that it undermined privacy and a threat from White House advisers warning they would recommend President Barack Obama veto the legislation. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (Cispa) passed by a 288-127 vote, receiving support from 92 Democrats. It will move to the Senate and then to the president's desk. The bill allows private businesses to share customers' personal information with any government entity, including the National Security Agency. Reintroduced in February after failing to pass Congress last year, the bill would afford legal protection to the government and businesses to share data with each other on cyber threats.

"We have a constitutional obligation to defend this nation," said Rogers, on the House floor. Earlier this week, Rogers dismissed opponents of the bill as teenagers in their basements. Thinksquad | CISPA | infographic.