I emailed our Senators against the Cybersecurity bill by Joe Lieberman

[Eric J in MN]

The following is an email I sent to Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar.

Feel free to use some-or-all of my words if you decide to email them on this issue.

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.

[Eric J in MN]

1. The vote may be later this week. NT

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