CISPA is a bill that gives companies a free pass to monitor and collect communications and share that data with the government and other companies, so long as they do so for ‘cybersecurity purposes,’” the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has noted. “Just invoking ‘cybersecurity threats’ is enough to grant companies immunity from nearly all civil and criminal liability, effectively creating an exemption from all existing law.”
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According to its co-author Rep. Mike Rogers, CISPA already has enough votes to pass the House on Friday
and despite an onslaught of new amendments, some of which actually make
the bill worse for privacy, will head to the Senate for approval before
awaiting the President’s signature.
In this recently released report, "The Administration strongly opposes H.R. 3523, the Cyber Intelligence
Sharing and Protection Act, in its current form," Obama's Office of
Management and Budget said in a statement. "If H.R. 3523 were presented
to the President, his senior advisors would recommend that he veto the
bill."
Given what we learned from Obama’s NDAA bait-and-switch, the President probably “can’t wait” to sign CISPA into law,
formally empowering the federal government to use the Internet as one
giant world wide wiretap in the name of cybersecurity.
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The Bill and its sponsors
