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.
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To vent a little, before taking action.
Talk about juvenile pipe dreams... Many people fought and died for the level of political interaction, in relative safety, that FR provides, to exist.
To then use this platform to incite despair and rebellion defeats the purpose of all that sacrifice, and can only result in utter destruction. Conservative rebellion is literally the dream of the Left.
Bite me.
No matter what! Lets also be sure to bow down to the liberal browbeating of Free Republic’s resident Democrats in hiding that assure us the dem is worse and we hate America and love Obama if we do not elect their personal choices to assist Obama.
Democrats’ plan to put ATF on steroids
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3353653/posts
Regarding Google’s malware database and malware warnings on FR
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3353601/posts
Very few in Congress are defending our Constitutional rights and freedoms. This is a fascist bill intended to create a larger govt / crony corporate partnership to manage the sheep.
BOHICA ...I feel so much that the NSA will spy on everyone else but not the real criminals in Congress who need it.../s
Congrats FR'pers you were all converted into domestic terrorists today because you believe in the Constitution, the rule of law, the marital institution that has endured or thousands of years, the right to keep guns and that your children should have to tight to be unmolested and straight if they want to be...
They are working hard to remove cash, the right to bear arms, and the right to express any opinion that does not agree with theirs...
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