US-Senat will CISPA nicht durchwinken Der Schutz der Privatsphäre sei unzureichend, sagte Senator Jay Rockefeller, Vorsitzender der Ausschusses zu CISPA. Der Senat werde CISPA nicht billigen, fährt Rockefeller fort. Stattdessen gebe es andere Entwürfe im Bereich Cybersecurity. Bis diese das Licht der Welt erblicken, wird es allerdings noch eine Weile dauern, berichtet "US News". Auch Michelle Richardson von der American Civil Liberties Union (ALCU) glaubt, dass CISPA tot sei.
CISPA Approved, Anonymous Calls For Internet Blackout, Rep. McCaul Cites Boston Bombing On Thursday, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, was approved by the House of Representatives by a vote of 288 to 127. Representatives attempted to connect CISPA to issues such as the Boston Marathon bombings and Iran in their arguments. The group Anonymous called for an Internet blackout on Monday, April 22 in protest of the bill. Privacy and civil liberties groups are concerned over the fact that CISPA would make it legal for websites and corporations to give any detail of users' personal information to the government without permission or justification for doing so. Like Us on Facebook Rep. The law was first introduced in 2011 and was approved by the House last year, but after an storm of protest from privacy and civil liberties groups, it did not pass the Senate. The group Anonymous called for an Internet blackout in protest on Monday, April 22. © 2014 KpopStarz.
CISPA Is Dead. Now Let's Do a Cybersecurity Bill Right | Wired Opinion Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired The controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) now appears to be dead in the Senate, despite having passed the House by a wide margin earlier this month. Though tech, finance, and telecom firms with a combined $605 million in lobbying muscle [updated*] supported the bill, opposition from privacy groups, internet activists, and ultimately the White House (which threatened to veto the law) seem to have proven fatal for now. For all the heated rhetoric surrounding the CISPA legislation — predictions of an impending Digital Pearl Harbor matched by dire warnings of Big Brother surveillance — the controversy was almost entirely unnecessary. We’ve grown so accustomed to hearing about the problem of ‘balancing privacy and security’ that it feels like the two are forever in conflict. Given that recent experience has shown companies shielded by secrecy often err on the side of oversharing with the government, that loophole was a key concern.
Terrorists may leave 'digital breadcrumbs' for investigators AP Photo/Bob Leonard This Monday, April 15, 2013 photo provided by Bob Leonard shows second from left, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was dubbed Suspect No. 1 and third from left, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, who was dubbed Suspect No. 2 in the Boston Marathon bombings by law enforcement. By Bob Sullivan and Rosa Golijan, NBC News The same Internet that makes it easy for terrorists and killers to research targets and stock up on ammunition also makes it easier for them to get caught, thanks to "digital breadcrumbs" that are hard to erase. "The big thing they are trying to determine is the radicalization," Mark Rasch, former head of the Justice Department's computer crime unit and now an independent consultant at MarkDRasch.com, explained to NBC News. "The first place you find digital breadcrumbs is in deleted or cached files," Rasch explains. Investigators will have to act quickly though, especially if the Tsarnaevs operated as part of a larger group.
Oppose Cispa if you value any privacy in our digital world | Dan Gillmor If you are eligible to vote in the United States, please take a break from whatever you're doing today and call your member of the US House of Representatives. Tell the staff member who answers the phone that you value your privacy. And tell him or her that you are deeply unhappy that the House seems poised to destroy everyone's online – and by extension offline – privacy by passing the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (Cispa). You might also mention that you're not a "14-year-old tweeter in the basement," which is how the chief backer of this wretched legislation has described its countless opponents. The House is likely to vote on Cispa Thursday morning. Worthy ideas in the abstract, but horrible in the details: cyber-security is a genuine concern, as we've seen repeatedly. As the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Mark Jaycox put it in an open forum on Reddit last week, here are some of Cispa's consequences: