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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJoe Lieberman trying to pass Cybersecurity Act of 2012. Please oppose.
I just emailed this to my Senators. Feel free to use some-or-all of my words in writing your Senators.
Please oppose the "Cybersecurity Act of 2012," S. 2105, from Joe Lieberman.
It makes an exception to ALL privacy laws.
It allows our emails, passwords, and medical records to be given out without our consent or knowledge.
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SEC. 702. VOLUNTARY DISCLOSURE OF CYBERSECURITY THREAT INDICATORS AMONG PRIVATE ENTITIES.
(a) Authority to Disclose- Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any private entity may disclose lawfully obtained cybersecurity threat indicators to any other private entity.
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The bill will be used to read journalists' emails and identify whistleblowers.
After a newspaper publishes an article about illegal activity by a corporation, the corporation can tell the email-provider of the journalist that the information must have been obtained without authorization from their computers, and therefore they need to read the journalist's emails.
The email-provider could legally give out the journalist's emails in response, and never tell the journalist.
The bill does NOT require a company which shares user's emails, passwords, and medical records in the name of "cybersecurity threat indicators" to ever tell the users.
Real cybersecurity threat information is already shared under existing laws.
The FBI arrests hackers under existing laws.
We don't need a new cybersecurity law.
alittlelark
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(32,139 posts)One more step for the corporate authoritarian state.
Eric J in MN
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(32,139 posts)Wake the HELL up, America.
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(32,139 posts)They just keep coming until Americans lose interest and aren't paying attention anymore.
Eric J in MN
(35,619 posts)...of SOPA.
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(32,139 posts)Need action now.
Eric J in MN
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Pool Hall Ace
(5,849 posts)"Ooooh, the Cybersecurity Act -- I want to be more safe online!"
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(32,139 posts)The height in despicable naming was the one that was named to suggest that it was all about preventing child porn:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002197126
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(32,139 posts)Eric J in MN
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(32,139 posts)HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)Eric J in MN
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Skidmore
(37,364 posts)November can't come fast enough. If I had enough money, I would buy a round of drinks for everyone on the day his ass hits the road.
Eric J in MN
(35,619 posts)He needs to do lasting damage to our privacy on his way out.
GoneOffShore
(17,340 posts)Except net neutrality.
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