Posted on 10/27/2015 3:58:06 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009
Sam Thielman The Senate, ignorant on cybersecurity, just passed a bill about it anyway. The US Senate overwhelmingly passed a controversial cybersecurity bill critics say will allow the government to collect sensitive personal data unchecked, over the objections of civil liberties groups and many of the biggest names in the tech sector. The vote on Tuesday was 74 to 21 in support of the legislation. (snip) None of the Republican presidential candidates (except Lindsey Graham, who voted in favor) were present to cast a vote, including Rand Paul, who has made privacy from surveillance a major plank of his campaign platform. Ahead of the vote a group of university professors specializing in tech law, many from the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy, sent an open letter to the Senate, urging them not to pass the bill. The bill, they wrote, would fatally undermine the Freedom of Information Act (Foia). Led by Princeton’s David S Levine, the group joined a chorus of critics including many of the largest technology companies, notably Apple, and National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden in calling for Cisa to be scrapped. Cisa would “allow ‘voluntary’ sharing of heretofore private information with the government, allowing secret and ad hoc privacy intrusions in place of meaningful consideration of the privacy concerns of all Americans,” the professors wrote. “The Freedom of Information Act would be neutralized". (snip) The American Banking Association and the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) applauded the passage of Cisa was negotiated and marked up in secret. The US Chamber of Commerce has been the only consistent champion of the legislation outside the halls of the Senate (snip) The data in question would come from private industry, which mines everything from credit card statements to prescription drug purchase records to target advertising and product lines.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Happy fishbowl!
I will miss the internet. I see it will happen real soon for me.
“If elected, we will work with President Obama”
-Mitch and Jonbon
Another win for Lesser evil Freepers and the people they demanded we elect.
I think they’ve been beta testing it on FR today.
If only we had a Republican majority in the senate to vote crap like this down...
Oh wait!
Yur GUbamint keeping all its eyes on you.. 24 by 7.
Can rectal implants be far behind?
It would seem most media have their heads already positioned.
They have done most of this for years. You’re already on lists just by posting here.
We need Trump more than ever!
That must be why they say “lean forward”.
Lindsay Graham (Yes vote of course) was the only GOP POTUS candidate to vote on it...
“Today, President Obama signed an Executive Order that directs Federal agencies to use behavioral science insights to better serve the American people. The Executive Order directs Federal agencies to identify programs in which applying behavioral science insights can yield substantial improvements; develop strategies for applying behavioral science insights to programs, and, where possible, for rigorously testing and evaluating the impact of these insights; recruit behavioral science experts to join the Federal Government; and strengthen agency relationships with the research community.”
Obola’s “To Serve Man” plan...
I know I post elsewhere too. I am more than likely towards the top of that list.
I got on it back in the 90s when Time tried crucifying me and our company and I imagine I havent fallen a lot in their rankings.
All of ‘em. Ever single politician is the same. And you KNOW those that voted against it just did so for show. They knew it would pass.
You people vote. I’m done.
Financial institutions rejoice because it gets them off the hook for their customers misdeeds. The Gubmint will follow every transaction you make. We won’t be able to buy or sell unless we have the Mark.
This is absolute insanity. What happened to the “right of Privacy”? Bork was absolutely correct (rejected by the Senate for SCOTUS). There is no right of privacy. We are losing our freedom more each day.
Financial institutions rejoice because it gets them off the hook for their customers misdeeds. The Gubmint will follow every transaction you make. We won’t be able to buy or sell unless we have the Mark.
Rand Paul is moving up faster than I thought.
ALL of Your Medical information is sold and traded amongst 8000+ Healthcare related organizations.
See for yourself:
thedatamap.org
There are no guarantees that your hospital doctor medical records are completely anonymized to protect your personal health information (PHI).
Trading and selling your medical data is a multi-billion dollar data mining industry.
Many dystopic scenarios possible with recent gov’t and US industry of every sort now sharing your information thru a big pipeline.
Big data analytic algorithms, prone to being misinterpreted, will be used for behavioral profiling.
That behavioral profile will serve as a Stazi dossier and likely impact may facets of life governed by authorities.
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