Dem senators ask tech giants Facebook, Google, Apple for cybersecurity support. Sens.
Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) are asking the chief executives of Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple and other major tech companies to back their revised cybersecurity bill. In letters sent to more than a dozen tech CEOs, the two Senate Democrats note the latest version of the bill includes "voluntary provisions on critical infrastructure protection" and updates to measures aimed at improving information sharing about cyberthreats between government and industry.
The move is aimed at drumming up industry support ahead of possible Senate action on the bill later this week. Top congressional staffer to lead new Internet lobbying group. Net Neutrality Violates the First and Fifth Amendments. This blogpost was co-authored by legal associate Matt Gilliam.
In December 2010, the FCC adopted Preserving the Open Internet, a “network neutrality” order regulating broadband internet access service. Issued under authority (ostensibly) derived from 24 disparate provisions of federal communications law, Preserving the Open Internet is predicated on three basic rules: transparency, no blocking, and no discrimination. Broadly speaking, “transparency” requires broadband providers to “disclose network management practices, performance characteristics, and terms and conditions of services.” The “no blocking” rule forbids fixed broadband providers from “blocking lawful content, applications, services, and non-harmful devices.” Meanwhile, mobile broadband providers are restricted from blocking “lawful websites” and certain applications.
Google to Warn You If You’re Account Is Compromised in a State-Sponsored Attack. BEIJING (The Blaze/AP) – ”Warning: We believe state-sponsored attackers may be trying to compromise your account or computer.”
This is the message you will see from Google from now on should your account ever become compromised. The company announced that it added this feature Tuesday as a precaution for users. Although Google didn’t specify a specific government, it did closed its search engine in China in 2010 after saying it no longer wanted to cooperate with Beijing’s Internet censorship following hacking attacks traced to China. Here's what Google's warning would look like. (Image: Google Online Security Blog) In a blog post, Vice President of Security Engineering Eric Grosse wrote: The Fight Against Copyright Enforcement & The Fight For Civil Liberties Are The Same.
KeepTheWebOpen.com. Google's Sergey Brin: Facebook and Apple a threat to Internet freedom. In an interview with the Guardian, Google co-founder Sergey Brin warned that the "open" Internet is in danger from very powerful forces, including Facebook and Apple.
Opposition grows to CISPA 'Big Brother' cybersecurity bill. Last-minute opposition to the CISPA, which has been criticized as a "Big Brother" cybersecurity bill, is growing as the U.S.
House of Representatives prepares for a vote this week. Rep. White House takes aim at CISPA with formal veto threat. The White House today escalated its opposition to a cybersecurity-related surveillance bill with a formal veto threat.
In a new statement, the White House's Office of Management and Budget said that the CISPA bill endangered Americans' privacy and inappropriately shielded private companies from liability. The statement suggests that CISPA -- also known as the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act -- goes too far by giving the National Security Agency too much power: H.R. 3523 effectively treats domestic cybersecurity as an intelligence activity and thus, significantly departs from longstanding efforts to treat the Internet and cyberspace as civilian spheres.
The Administration believes that a civilian agency -- the Department of Homeland Security -- must have a central role in domestic cybersecurity, including for conducting and overseeing the exchange of cybersecurity information with the private sector and with sector-specific Federal agencies. CISPA Is Up For Vote This Week: Help Kill It Now. Oppose CISPA and Unfettered Access to Americans' Internet Activity. CISPA Bill Update: A Few Things to Note As The Cybersecurity Bill Heads To Congress. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, also known as the CISPA, is headed to the House of Representatives this week.
Scheduled for debate on Thursday, April 26, the CISPA bill—which will be deliberated alongside another cybersecurity bill known as the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act (PDF)—is expected to see a vote no later than 3pm (ET) Friday afternoon. As the time rapidly approaches, the bill’s opponents have wasted no time making their voices heard. In fact, one petition against CISPA posted on Avaaz.org has already accumulated more than 750,000 signatures. House approves CISPA despite last-minute push by opponents. The U.S.
House of Representatives today approved a controversial Internet surveillance bill , rejecting increasingly vocal arguments from critics that it would do more to endanger Americans' privacy than aid cybersecurity. By a vote of 248 to 168, a bipartisan majority approved the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, which would permit Internet companies to hand over confidential customer records and communications to the National Security Agency and other portions of the U.S. government. CISPA would "waive every single privacy law ever enacted in the name of cybersecurity," said Rep. House Passes CISPA: Make Sure It Dies In The Senate. House Passes CISPA: Make Sure It Dies In The Senate We pushed them to the brink, but House Republicans rammed through CISPA this afternoon, ahead of schedule.
Let's make sure it dies in the Senate: Please add your name at right. CISPA would give the government and corporations vast new powers to track and share data about Americans' Internet use. But our hundreds of thousands of emails and tens of thousands of phone calls have had a real impact: Google challenges China censorship with new search tool. BEIJING – Google has begun notifying Chinese users when they are using search terms that can trigger China's Internet blocks, in its boldest challenge in two years to Beijing's efforts to restrict online content.
The search giant unveiled on its Chinese site this week a new mechanism that identifies political and other sensitive terms that are censored by Chinese authorities.