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CISPA = SOPA 2.0? - YouTube
Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mods can you please make this thread sticky and help to raise the awareness about this attack against internet freedom. Unfourtanetly this time US goverment was clever enough to protect giant internet corporations so we may not have the support of Internet Giants ( Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia, Facebook ) on our side.
Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Under the proposed legislation, a company that protects itself or other companies against cybersecurity threats can use cybersecurity systems to identify and obtain cyber threat information to protect the rights and property of the company under threat. But because us[ing] cybersecurity systems is incredibly vague, it could be interpreted to mean monitoring email, filtering content, or even blocking access to sites. A company acting on a cybersecurity threat would be able to bypass all existing laws, including laws prohibiting telcos from routinely monitoring communications, so long as it acted in good faith.
The broad language around what constitutes a cybersecurity threat leaves the door wide open for abuse. For example, the bill defines cyber threat intelligence and cybersecurity purpose to include theft or misappropriation of private or government information, intellectual property, or personally identifiable information.
Yes, intellectual property. Its a little piece of SOPA wrapped up in a bill thats supposedly designed to facilitate detection of and defense against cybersecurity threats. The language is so vague that an ISP could use it to monitor communications of subscribers for potential infringement of intellectual property. An ISP could even interpret this bill as allowing them to block accounts believed to be infringing, block access to websites like The Pirate Bay believed to carry infringing content, or take other measures provided they claimed it was motivated by cybersecurity concerns.
Mods can you please make this thread sticky and help to raise the awareness about this attack against internet freedom. Unfourtanetly this time US goverment was clever enough to protect giant internet corporations so we may not have the support of Internet Giants ( Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia, Facebook ) on our side.