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Epoch Times
| 1 year ago
In a press release, the EFF said that it condemns the vote in the House and vows to continue the fight in the Senate. An open letter by a group of academics and engineers, also posted on the EFF site, says that the bills nullify current legal...
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Gawker
| 1 year ago
The bill allows private companies and the federal government to share information in order to prevent cyber-attacks. (You can read Adrian Chen's far more eloquent explanation here .) The Obama administration has threatened to veto the bill, instead...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
Cyber-security bill Cispa passes US House Critics of the congressional bill say its definition of 'cyber threat' is too vague The US House of Representatives has passed a cyber-security bill amid a veto threat from President Barack Obama. The Cyber...
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Russia Today
| 1 year ago
Internet users are worried about the bill's possible consequences. RT: Can you explain the difference between this legislation and the previous controversial bills aimed at combating piracy? Aaron Swartz: The previous bills were about giving the...
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The Motley Fool
| 1 year ago
The Administration cited concerns that the legislation would undermine personal security and civil liberties...Supporters of the bill, which includes some of the largest publicly traded corporations in the United States, claim that the bill would...
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Gawker
| 1 year ago
Wikipedia black for a day and depressed the GPA of a large portion of the world's high school students?...Is All About Sharing The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act is a bipartisan bill that would allow federal agencies and private companies to...
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Democracy Now
| 1 year ago
Google, Facebook and Microsoft to hand over troves of confidential customer records and communications to the National Security Agency, FBI and Department of Homeland Security, effectively legalizing a secret domestic surveillance program already run...
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Russia Today
| 1 year ago
Poland is facing a new day of protests against a copyright agreement signed by Warsaw on Thursday...Americans, the House of Representatives is marching ahead with the legislation. It met on Thursday to discuss the controversial act ahead of Friday's...
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Epoch Times
| 1 year ago
April 26, 2012 We must remember the bigger privacy and civil liberties threat: the Internet's insecurity...Security researchers Dan Kaminsky and Stewart Baker The bill's architects, Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) and Mike Rogers (R-Mich.),...
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Alternet
| 1 year ago
Sign up to stay up to date on the latest Civil Liberties headlines via email. The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to pass a reprehensible cyber-security bill this week that seeks to protect online companiesgiant social media firms to data-...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Ron Paul is the final Mitt Romney alternative in the GOP presidential race now that Newt Gingrich is bowing out of the race, a fact that has wide-ranging implications for the party's chances of winning the White House in 2012. Share This Story Though...
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Russia Today
| 1 year ago
Lawmakers in Washington are divided as to how to implement cybersecurity legislation to protect against infiltration from hackers, but one insider says the answer is simple: just establish border patrol for the Internet in America. Congress is slated...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act is the greatest potential threat to Internet freedom and privacy currently before the U.S. Congress , and many critics have been warning in recent weeks that it has the potential to do even more harm...
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The Washington Times
| 1 year ago
Having failed earlier this year to foist an Orwellian kill switch on Internet free speech, Congress is now peddling a kinder, gentler piece of cybersecurity legislation. However, Washington's latest attempt to play Big Brother on the Internet poses...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
Nokia and HTC win European patent ruling against Ipcom Ipcom first challenged HTC in the German courts in 2009 and won The European Patent Office has revoked a patent which threatened to halt sales of HTC and Nokia phones in Germany. Intellectual...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
Activists and lawmakers are geared up for a final push against the latest internet security legislation, calling on Congress to reject or dial back the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (PDF) because of the considerable power it gives...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul claims Cispa 'encourages internet companies to act as government spies'. Photograph: Mark Makela/Reuters A senior Obama administration official has stressed the White House's opposition to a controversial...
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PR Newswire
| 1 year ago
The campaign has tremendous progress in partnership with government and industry. We look forward to the next decade of working together on this important mission." American public, forming the groundwork for the future public/private partnership of...
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India Abroad
| 1 year ago
I n a strong democracy, we should be able to criticise the government. In a democratic country like India or Turkey, governments are trying to restrict Internet and that's a dangerous idea because overtime, it will become difficult to protest against...
