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CISPA passes in the House, still faces resistance in the Senate and White House

The CISPA cybersecurity bill is back, and it passed the US House this morning. Now it will go on to the Senate and possibly the White House. The bill gives the government the authority to collect private computer and internet data without a warrant as a tool to fight cyberattacks and espionage, but most people are rightfully wary of letting the government snoop through our digital lives without warning or a warrant.

posted 18 April, 2013
by custommadescare
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President Obama signs cybersecurity executive order right before yesterday’s State of the Union

Yesterday, before Obama got in front of America to give his annual State of the Union adress, he signed an executive order that allows private companies and the government a higher degree of collaboration on cybersecurity threats. It’s kind of like CISPA, except without all the bullshit and with a promise of privacy and civil liberties protection. We’ll see.

posted 13 February, 2013
by cranberryzero
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New cybersecurity bill, CISPA gets parts of the internet in an uproar

The US legislature is dead and determined to push through some sort of major national cybersecurity bill in some measure. SOPA may have been pushed out by torches and pitchforks, and now there’s CISPA, or the Cybersecurity Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, which creates an official definition for “cybersecurity threat” that would get the federal government involved.