Posing as a “cybersecurity” bill, this new bill only seeks to expand government surveillance. According to Tech Dirt:
We’ve discussed the “cybersecurity” bill, CISA, that’s been making its way through Congress a few times, noting that it is nothing more than a surveillance expansion bill hidden in “cybersecurity” clothing. As recent revelations concerning NSA’s surveillance authorities have made quite clear, CISA would really serve to massively expand the ability of the NSA (and other intelligence agencies) to do “backdoor searches” on its “upstream” collection. In short, rather than protecting any sort of security threat, this bill would actually serve to give the NSA more details on the kind of “cyber signatures” it wants to sniff through pretty much all internet traffic (that it taps into at the backbone) to collect anything it deems suspicious. It then keeps the results of this, considering it “incidental” collections of information.
In an incredibly cynical move, supporters of the surveillance state have seen OPM hacks as a ridiculous excuse to push to pass this bill. Senator Mitch McConnell tried to include it in the defense appropriations bill by pointing to the OPM hack. That gambit, thankfully, failed.
This is just the latest attack in the constant battle between the surveillance state and you.
Source: Tech Dirt
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“we the people” have lost faith in BOTH parties…the liberal democrats who are literally destroying our country and the republicans who support them, no matter the rhetoric…Obama is a traitor and if we truly do have a republican congress, why hasnt Obama been impeached and tried for the treason he, by his own words and actions, is guilty of?….its time for “we the people” to go shopping for new senators and representatives…that represent us, not special interests and feathering their own nests at our expense….
Been under attack since the United States corporation took control.
its 1984 …the book where spying was everywhere
Eliminate big government
Privacy is a privilege of the
past !!!