Floyd Brown
The Western Center for Journalism
4/23/2013
…Last week, while our attention was diverted to the Boston Marathon bombing manhunt, the U.S. House of Representatives snuck in and struck a blow to civil liberties.
They passed new legislation called the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA; and it has substantial implications for online freedom.
Although the President hasn’t officially signed CISPA yet, the Obama Administration has embraced Total Information Awareness –“TIA” for short – which refers to the government’s power to accumulate a massive, searchable database of every conceivable type of electronic information.
And I’m not even talking about the agencies already compiling virtually billions of phone and email records. CISPA has taken all of that to a new level. The United States government now has more power than ever to snoop on you.
CISPA advocates say the bill is an essential tool to protect Americans from foreign “hackers.”…
…Under CISPA, corporations fork over the private data of American citizens to federal agents, as long as they can excuse the encroachment of your privacy in the name of protecting the vague mandate called “cyber security.”
And nothing will go untouched by those monitoring our activities…
The entire article is at The Western Center for Journalism.
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The little dictator…
…Every impulse this guy has, though, is towards the aggrandizement of the state and the diminishment of the citizen.
