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Whether or not it's legal does not inform whether or not it is a positive step as far as privacy advocacy is concerned. Laws such as this embolden those partie
by koglerjs 14y ago
Whether or not it's legal does not inform whether or not it is a positive step as far as privacy advocacy is concerned.
Laws such as this embolden those parties that seek to undermine privacy. It is one thing for someone to be able to say "According to a set of disparate laws, X action is legal" and quite another when "According to CISPA, X action is legal."
- tptacek 14y agoYou're responding on a thread that provides chapter and verse citation to the statute that already made this kind of sharing lawful. You might just as productively oppose every bill for not fixing the ECPA.
- throwaway64 14y ago"as may be necessarily incident to the rendition of the service or to the protection of the rights or property of the provider of that service" is significantly different, and much less broad than "threats to national security", or "theft or misappropriation of private or government information, intellectual property, or personally identifiable information."
- tptacek 14y agoI don't understand how "threats to national security" could possibly be broader than "incident to rendition of service" or "protection of rights or property of the provider".