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 ...
Bingo! That’s the plan.
Ever quickening prophetic developments are being fulfilled on a weekly and daily basis.
Living in increasingly interesting days...
“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.”
The truth of the matter is we are ALL DONE. Everyone here and elsewhere in America are still clinging to the false belief that the velvet coup we are now feeling the iron grip of, never happened and that this is just another election cycle.
But I am with you. Voting is just an exercise in not just futility, but an illusion created to placate the masses while digging mass graves for the same.
Let the clueless sheeple vote.
Let those of us who know what time it is, prepare for what we know is coming.
Oh for heavens sake just vote Trump!
RE:
This is absolute insanity.
- I completely agree.
What happened to the “right of Privacy”?
- we citizens were not vigilant protecting our liberty.
Bork was absolutely correct (rejected by the Senate for SCOTUS). There is no right of privacy. We are losing our freedom more each day.
- you are sadly right.
We are ONLY losing our country, constitution, decent governance, economy, and culture: Because the scoundrels in charge do not fear we citizens.
*Mark my words - if 1% of 330 Million citizens have not lit up the phones, and protest at our state and DC capital by now, I Guarantee Obola and other traitors know they have Nothing to worry about from us, their subjects.
The 5th, 4th, and 1st Ammendment are virtually dead.
Our precious 2nd Ammendment is next.
And judging by lack of protest, it’ll go out with a whimper.*
Non-compliance after a law is passed is Too Late.
You actually think We The People’s are going to have a legitimate election next year????????
If so, you have absolutely no clue what time it is or where we have arrived.
Trump or Cruz will never be allowed to “win”, we have been fundamentally transformed already. We have a dictatorship run by an oligarchy. We see the evidence of this every single day, today is just one more example.
What part of these facts do you folks refuse to understand?
Will you wait to recognize it when lots of people you know from here and elsewhere start being ‘punished’ or disappear?
You cannot stop a tyranny via civil means - and we are well into one on myriad fronts.
The Republic is gone. Get that through your skulls if you want to survive what is coming.
Wow dude you are off the rails! My advice vote Jeb! That stincks!
Too bad Google says this whole website, every last thread, is infected , at least to users using the Chrome browser on PC’s! (Maybe not all Mac’s?) Free Republic is UNDER SIEGE by the Left Front!
We must fight.
Privacy only matters for abortions.
Convenient timing for this Malware disruption against FR, CISA passage and all.
There will come a day soon, where being associated with a Christian or Conservative site will be seen as bad as ch-1ld p-0-rn.
Marginalize
Vilify
Disrupt
Outlaw
That’s what Obola’s mentors taught him to do to adversaries.
The death of America continues. Life support cannot resuscitate it. America as founded is done. America is toast. The Founders of the Republic, the writers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are forgotten. The Bill of Rights is meaningless. A Republic founded on Christian principals and the Word of God, the Bible has been tossed out. All this has been accomplished by a man who approves the murder of the unborn child, supports the marriage of men to men and women to women, an abomination in the face of the Holy God. This same man has ignored the laws and Constitution. He does what he wants to do anytime he wants to regardless if it is illegal or not not. The very people responsible for keeping him in check, the Congress of the United States AND the so called Free Press. Neither have lifted a finger to bring his crimes to light of day. In fact the “Free” Press is his aider and abettor. They are as guilty as he is. The very checks and balances that were suppose to be in place to high light these crimes are ignored. The nation of free peoples have become the enemy of an out of control federal government, which was not meant to rule the Republic, but has grown into a massive festering wound in the heart of the Republic and the nation is being “ruled” by a communist dictator who is a criminal. He is not even a citizen of the Republic, yet is in charge. No nation on the planet is being ruled by a person from another country, elected by that country, to run it. Only America has accomplished this crime. The very citizens of the nation have elected a non-citizen to run the nation, however now, rules as a dictator. I am not convinced that he will even leave office in 2016. I believe he will at some point in the next few months declare martial law after some “event” that he and his gang of criminals dream up, a terrorist attack of some type that kills hundreds, and he will declare martial law. I think he will have some event to keep himself in office. He has already stated he would love to have another term. No my fellow Americans, the Republic is bleeding to death. Life support cannot save her. This country will be run by a dictatorship, lead by radical homosexuals, who will have anyone who is a Christian put in a prison camp. All I can say is come on guys, bring your guns because this guy is not going quietly. I served this nation for 20 years around the world. I retired from the US Army. And now the very government that I served, calls me a domestic terrorist because I am a conservative, Christian, a veteran. Guilty of all three. But I am no terrorist. I consider the ones in charge to be the terrorists. I have only one thing to say, “Come Quickly LORD Jesus!!! Maranatha!!!!
Off the rails?
Only to those with a fatal case of Normalcy Bias.
Or hopelessly Clueless.
Or Willfully ignorant.
And/or all of the above.
Which makes up a majority of the population. So rest easy.
The majority is on your side.
OK take a step back. This is not the end of the world. Y
Go leap off a short porch big mouth.
I’ve noticed a trend lately in general to make it seem all is hopeless, on news, radio callers throwing in the gauntlet, loud people, etc saying just give up! They are desperate do not fall for it!
Don’t forget Presidential right of Executive privilege secrecy, State Secretary’s right to private email servers, and US legislators right to privacy in keeping healthcare bill* content and trade agreement terms, secret.
*”We have to pass it to find what’s in it” - N Pelosi
RE: “What happened to the “right of Privacy”?
Privacy only matters for abortions.”
If you think this nation is hunky dorrie, that is your opinion. Mine is that this nation is going to fall and fall hard. If you think different, you are sadly wrong. Very wrong. Go away. I don’t have time to comment any longer to a dimocrat like you.
You were just proclaiming the sky is falling. The resistance does not need this type of support. Maybe you are too old now. Retire. Thanks for your service!
There are ways of minimizing your footprints on your computer and on the web. Use them. While you can.
Tor
VPN (that keeps no logs)
Tor for android
Protonmail
No facebook, twitter, Eventbrite, etc.
Encrypt your files on computer. Truecrypt, etc.
Encrypt your cellphone—capability already there, just activate it.
Lastpass
Join the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Brb, someone’s at the door...
Your assessment is unfortunately very true.
Each gov’t act to erode our freedoms and country which goes by without citizen outrage and protest, further seals our fate.
Each day, the pincer closes in.
When the SHTF, it’ll be too late.
The NDAA signed in 2012 calls for the Indefinite detention of US citizens found to be beligerent toward government.
The time and ability to lawfully protest is quickly coming to an end.
In the final analysis, no foreign enemy destroyed us.
Our apathy did.
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