ACLU: CISPA Is Dead (For Now)
Source: US News
CISPA is all but dead, again.
The controversial cybersecurity bill known as the Cyber Information Sharing and Protection Act, which passed the House of Representatives last week, will almost certainly be shelved by the Senate, according to a representative of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.
The bill would have allowed the federal government to share classified "cyber threat" information with companies, but it also provided provisions that would have allowed companies to share information about specific users with the government. Privacy advocates also worried that the National Security Administration would have gotten involved.
"We're not taking [CISPA] up," the committee representative says. "Staff and senators are divvying up the issues and the key provisions everyone agrees would need to be handled if we're going to strengthen cybersecurity. They'll be drafting separate bills."
Read more: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/04/25/aclu-cispa-is-dead-for-now
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)was too damned close to a veto override and I don't know if Pelosi could or would keep enough Dems in line during an override vote.
Mr. David
(535 posts)And I don't expect them to pass anything useful until 2015, where the Republicans lose the House majority, permanently as more Americans wake up to the fact that Republicans has not done useful shit since 1876.
harmonicon
(12,008 posts)There's only a Republican majority in the house now because of gerrymandering. We're not likely to see the redrawing of district lines anywhere until after the next census, and who knows what damage will be done by Republicans between now and then.
A big part of this problem is that Dems fail to make nonpartisan redistricting part of a larger platform. I think it's a minority, but it's not rare that I read people on here saying, "we should gerrymander districts when given the opportunity because the Republicans do it to." I may vote for Democratic candidates 99.9% percent of the time (and never Republicans), but I'm far more interested in small "d" democrats winning.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)klook
(12,134 posts)The enemies of privacy will not rest until they get something like CISPA passed.
I hope we've kept the threat at bay for now, but I guarantee you they'll take another run at it. SOPA failed, and we got CISPA. If CISPA fails, we'll get the next version before too long.
Fortunately, the President says he'll veto H.R. 624 as currently structured if it makes it to his desk.
I've still voiced my concerns to my elected reps, thanks to the alert posted on the home page of DuckDuckGo, my favorite search engine. Here's the letter succinctly outlining the concerns. Thanks to DuckDuckGo.com and to Abine, makers of online privacy tools DoNotTrackMe, DeleteMe, and MaskMe, for co-sponsoring this campaign!
And thanks to the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union for all they're doing to protect our privacy rights and inform the public of these issues.
https://www.dotrights.org/
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Means they will sneak the bills into other legisltion and hope to pass the idea piecemeal.
and vewy vewy quietly.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)...and give us money."
None of these bad ideas ever dies.
None even goes dormant for more than a few weeks.
Most of our leaders are corrupt.
The rest stand for nothing and thus fall for everything.