Posted on 08/05/2015 7:13:13 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday said a controversial new surveillance bill could sweep away “important privacy protections”, a move that bodes ill for the measure’s return to the floor of the Senate this week.
The latest in a series of failed attempts to reform cybersecurity, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (Cisa) grants broad latitude to tech companies, data brokers and anyone with a web-based data collection to mine user information and then share it with “appropriate Federal entities”, which themselves then have permission to share it throughout the government.
Minnesota senator Al Franken queried the DHS in July; deputy secretary of the department Alejandro Mayorkas responded today that some provisions of the bill “could sweep away important privacy protections” and that the proposed legislation “raises privacy and civil liberties concerns”.
Much of the attention on Cisa has been directed at companies such as Google, Facebook and Comcast, which have large hoards of internet user behavior. But arguably more important are data brokers. Among the groups lobbying for the passage of Cisa are Experian, which tracks consumer trends using information from loyalty cards and other sources and licenses the information to help target advertising; Oracle, whose Data Cloud product works similarly; and Hitrust, which aggregates healthcare information...
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The Gestapo is at it again. They gotta do something about those pesky Americans. They have TOO MUCH freedom.
The next several days I have been blasted with AFLAC and other disability insurance emails soliciting my business. I transmitted HIPPA related information to them. Who stole it? Who did they share it with?
I'm ticked off right not because I am receiving phone calls and emails from every Republican on the planet. My name, email and phone number has somehow made it to a phone list that is being sold out there. It's really starting to tick me off.
WiFi makes all these internet control laws irrelevant.
If you can connect wirelessly, they can never completely trace the source. A long range antenna on a city window is basically 100% anonymous in the short term (and that’s all hackers need).
Just like with gun control, this won’t do jack sh** to stop real criminals. But it will do plenty to keep honest citizens weak, afraid and at the mercy of the state.
Back to CB radios?
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/15/gmail-scans-all-emails-new-google-terms-clarify
We have no privacy today and haven’t had for years.
And Al Franken is the only Senator questioning this?
Good God!!
Now I do get gmail notifications telling me to log in to their website to access my messages, so maybe those get scanned by gmail to trigger data sharing of my information?
What is a good email system to use that does not run algorithms on your content for data mining?
I honestly do not know. I'm certain other Freepers have chimed in on this issue in the past. Maybe someone here will.
ummm... I’d say TELENET or TYMNET.
: )
Well you are a FReeper so you know you’re at the top of the federal surveillance pyramid.
If the feds happen to make a little gravy selling the info on the side, I’m not surprised either...
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