An onrush of condemnation and criticism kept the SOPA and PIPA acts from
passing earlier this year, but US lawmakers have already authored
another authoritarian bill that could give them free reign to creep the
Web in the name of cybersecurity. A piece of legislation dubbed the
Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (or CISPA for short), has
been created under the guise of being a necessary implement in America's
war against cyberattacks. Kendall Burman of the Center for Democracy
and Technology tells RT that Congress is currently considering a number
of cybersecurity bills that could eventually be voted into law, but for
the group that largely advocates an open Internet, she warns that
provisions within CISPA are reason to worry over what the realities
could be if it ends up on the desk of President Barack Obama.
CISPA, or the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protect Act, also known as
HR 3523 is a cybersecurity House bill that's already gained over 100
sponsors and is perhaps the worst of them all. It would allow companies
to collect and monitor private communications and share them with the
government, and anyone else. So is it really as scary as it sounds?
EFF's Trevor Timm explains.
Trevor
Timm is an activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He
specializes in free speech issues and government transparency. Before
joining the EFF, Trevor helped the longtime General Counsel of The New York Times, James Goodale, write a book on the First Amendment. He has also worked for the former President of the ACLU and at The New Yorker. He graduated from Northeastern University and has a J.D. from New York Law School.
Trevor also curates the Twitter account @WLLegal
that reports on legal news surrounding WikiLeaks, the right to publish
classified information, and other freedom of the press issues.
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