U.S. spy agencies say won't read Americans' email for cybersecurity

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

U.S. spy agencies say won't read Americans' email for cybersecurity

By Tabassum Zakaria and David Alexander
WASHINGTON | Mon Jul 9, 2012 8:48pm EDT

(Reuters) - The head of the U.S. spy agency that eavesdrops on electronic communications overseas sought on Monday to reassure Americans that the National Security Agency would not read their personal email if a new cybersecurity law was enacted to allow private companies to share information with the government.

The House of Representatives in April approved a bill that would allow the government and companies to share information about hacking. But the White House and key Senate Democrats back a broader approach.

Critics have raised privacy concerns about the sharing of such information, concerned it would allow the National Security Agency, which also protects government computer networks, to collect data on American communications, which is generally prohibited by law.

"The reality is we can do protection of civil liberties and privacy and cybersecurity as a nation," General Keith Alexander said in a speech at the American Enterprise Institute.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/10/net-us-usa-security-cyber-idUSBRE86901620120710

[bemildred]

1. "Trust me." nt

[nc4bo]

2. Must add the **wink-wink**. nt

[Downwinder]

3. How about a show of good faith

and cut off the Nigerian scams.

[Turbineguy]

4. If the AEI says it will be fine.....

Of course you can always get out of it by just registering with the GOP.

"Don't be stupid
Be a Smarty
Come and join
The Nazi Party!"

[RC]

5. Code for farming it out.

The head of the U.S. spy agency that eavesdrops on electronic communications overseas sought on Monday to reassure Americans that the National Security Agency would not read their personal email if a new cybersecurity law was enacted to allow private companies to share information with the government.

[Robb]

6. Ah, no.

I mean I'm also not taking NSA at face value here, no one should.

But I promise you there is precisely zero chance they would let their data be analyzed by anyone else. The silo mentality lives on there like nowhere on earth. I doubt they share workload between different floors.

[RC]

7. I stand corrected.

I forgot about the psychotic paranoia of the people "protecting our freedom".

[Robb]

8. In my view that's very nearly a fair criticism.

[DCKit]

9. Every time they try to assure us they not doing something bad, it's a sure sign they are.

I know I'm going to have to take a boat to England to visit my friends, 'cause I'm sure I'm on the "No Fly" list - just for posting here.