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It still covers virtually unrestricted privacy violations. For anyone who considers privacy a civil right, this bill is still insane. The whole notion of encou
by rickmb 14y ago
It still covers virtually unrestricted privacy violations.
For anyone who considers privacy a civil right, this bill is still insane. The whole notion of encouraging companies to violate people's privacy and sharing information with the government without any form of due process belongs in a totalitarian regime.
The fact that this shit already happens (and puts the US in direct conflict with other Western countries because US companies operating internationally have lots of personal information of their citizens) doesn't justify CISPA.
- tptacek 14y agoAgain: that form of information sharing isn't just already lawful under the 1986 ECPA, it's explicitly written into the 1986 ECPA. If anything, CISPA --- particularly the second draft of CISPA, but even the "horrible" first one --- is more restrictive: it narrows the circumstances of sharing to "cyber threat" scenarios, limits who the information can be shared with (ECPA does not), and suggests anonymization.