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CYBER SECURITY Bill Allows Companies To Hand Your Information Over To The Government

Written by: Paul Nyhart

A new bill passed by the House of Representatives will give private companies the ability to exchange confidential information with the Federal Government.

The bill is titled The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act and is designed to “defend U.S. networks against cyber attack.”

The bill passed despite heat from the Obama Administration to veto the legislation, saying the “bill fails to protect privacy and gives a pass to companies that do not secure networks critical to the nation’s security.”

Something the Speaker of the House John Boehner denied:

“Listen, the White House believes the government ought to control the Internet, the government ought to set standards and the government ought to take care of everything that’s needed for cyber security…whether it’s private industry, whether it’s other parts of the government, understand that we can’t have the government in charge of our Internet.”

The bill essentially gives private companies and the government the ability to exchange information voluntarily, which would seem to counter Speaker Boehner’s point of view. The White House is ostensibly saying they believe it’s the privacy of Americans, not the motivation to control the internet, that is driving their opposition to the bill — something echoed by the ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security House committee:

http://www.jacehallshow.com/blog/cyber-security-bill-allows-companies-to-hand-your-information-over-to-the-government/

 

Police launch ‘abusive’ midnight wakeup calls

by Bob Unruh
WND.com
4/26/2012

Police in Richmond, Va., have announced an initiative for officers on the midnight shift to inspect parked vehicles and then knock on the door of the owner’s home during the 12 a.m. to 4 a.m. time period “for an unexpected wakeup call” if they discover a situation that would lend itself to theft or vandalism.

But a civil-rights organization says the policy treads on citizens’ constitutional rights and, moreover, could create a dangerous situation for both the citizen and the police officer.

“The recent Trayvon Martin incident from Florida should serve as a stark warning of how the fear and misunderstanding of a homeowner can turn a benign situation into a tragedy involving loss of life,” John Whitehead, president of the Rutherford Institute, said in a letter to Richmond police chief Bryan Norwood.

“Except in the most compelling of circumstances, the Richmond police should avoid intrusions that create this kind of danger to themselves and residents,” he wrote of the city police plan to teach residents not to leave valuables in sight in a parked vehicle.

A spokesman for the police department today told WND that officials likely would have no comment on the program or the letter from Whitehead.

The Rest…HERE

http://revolutionradio.org/?p=29554

 

Is this knocking at your front door yet? Imagine how scary this would be since Americans typically aren't use to this.

But this is what we will start seeing all the time.   Another one is slipping it's way right into your neighborhood.

Please people Obama has lost it,  Since when is children doing chores a crime,  OMG!!!

Since when is having poison in our water good and fine for all of us, you can bet the White house doesn't have this in their water,  and mercury is every where we look  and they are targeting the black but of course those who adore Obama would never ever believe that.

The ones who know better will believe and know what we are seeing is real and it has been done,  They gave black men syphilis and watched them die, and suffer they just wanted to see what it would do,   they do the same to the kids in Africa, but you couldn't tell  a die hard save the afica kids that.

 

the above is what you can surely expect now!! Now that this has passed--

nsanity: CISPA Just Got Way Worse, And Then Passed On Rushed Vote from the this-is-crazy dept

Up until this afternoon, the final vote on CISPA was supposed to be tomorrow. Then, abruptly, it was moved up today—and the House voted in favor of its passage with a vote of 248-168. But that's not even the worst part.

The vote followed the debate on amendments, several of which were passed. Among them was an absolutely terrible change (pdf and embedded below—scroll to amendment #6) to the definition of what the government can do with shared information, put forth by Rep. Quayle. Astonishingly, it was described as limiting the government's power, even though it in fact expands it by adding more items to the list of acceptable purposes for which shared information can be used. Even more astonishingly, it passed with a near-unanimous vote. The CISPA that was just approved by the House is much worse than the CISPA being discussed as recently as this morning.

Previously, CISPA allowed the government to use information for "cybersecurity" or "national security" purposes. Those purposes have not been limited or removed. Instead, three more valid uses have been added: investigation and prosecution of cybersecurity crime, protection of individuals, and protection of children. Cybersecurity crime is defined as any crime involving network disruption or hacking, plus any violation of the CFAA.

Basically this means CISPA can no longer be called a cybersecurity bill at all. The government would be able to search information it collects under CISPA for the purposes of investigating American citizens with complete immunity from all privacy protections as long as they can claim someone committed a "cybersecurity crime". Basically it says the 4th Amendment does not apply online, at all. Moreover, the government could do whatever it wants with the data as long as it can claim that someone was in danger of bodily harm, or that children were somehow threatened—again, notwithstanding absolutely any other law that would normally limit the government's power.

Somehow, incredibly, this was described as limiting CISPA, but it accomplishes the exact opposite. This is very, very bad.

There were some good amendments adopted too—clarifying some definitions, including the fact that merely violating a TOS does not constitute unauthorized network access—but frankly none of them matter in the light of this change. CISPA is now a completely unsupportable bill that rewrites (and effectively eliminates) all privacy laws for any situation that involves a computer. Far from the defense against malevolent foreign entities that the bill was described as by its authors, it is now an explicit attack on the freedoms of every American.

 

TELL YOUR CONGRESSMEN NOT TO ACCEPT THIS,  we can NOT LOOK TO WASHINGTON ANY MORE we need to look to our LOCAL......

 

Politicians are not all knowing of this passed law, nor familiar with they are shutting down the family farms,  making it illegal for kids to do chorse and this means of any kind..... it trickles down

WAKE UP AND FAST !!

nsanity: CISPA Just Got Way Worse, And Then Passed On Rushed Vote from the this-is-crazy dept

Up until this afternoon, the final vote on CISPA was supposed to be tomorrow. Then, abruptly, it was moved up today—and the House voted in favor of its passage with a vote of 248-168. But that's not even the worst part.

The vote followed the debate on amendments, several of which were passed. Among them was an absolutely terrible change (pdf and embedded below—scroll to amendment #6) to the definition of what the government can do with shared information, put forth by Rep. Quayle. Astonishingly, it was described as limiting the government's power, even though it in fact expands it by adding more items to the list of acceptable purposes for which shared information can be used. Even more astonishingly, it passed with a near-unanimous vote. The CISPA that was just approved by the House is much worse than the CISPA being discussed as recently as this morning.

Previously, CISPA allowed the government to use information for "cybersecurity" or "national security" purposes. Those purposes have not been limited or removed. Instead, three more valid uses have been added: investigation and prosecution of cybersecurity crime, protection of individuals, and protection of children. Cybersecurity crime is defined as any crime involving network disruption or hacking, plus any violation of the CFAA.

Basically this means CISPA can no longer be called a cybersecurity bill at all. The government would be able to search information it collects under CISPA for the purposes of investigating American citizens with complete immunity from all privacy protections as long as they can claim someone committed a "cybersecurity crime". Basically it says the 4th Amendment does not apply online, at all. Moreover, the government could do whatever it wants with the data as long as it can claim that someone was in danger of bodily harm, or that children were somehow threatened—again, notwithstanding absolutely any other law that would normally limit the government's power.

Somehow, incredibly, this was described as limiting CISPA, but it accomplishes the exact opposite. This is very, very bad.

There were some good amendments adopted too—clarifying some definitions, including the fact that merely violating a TOS does not constitute unauthorized network access—but frankly none of them matter in the light of this change. CISPA is now a completely unsupportable bill that rewrites (and effectively eliminates) all privacy laws for any situation that involves a computer. Far from the defense against malevolent foreign entities that the bill was described as by its authors, it is now an explicit attack on the freedoms of every American.

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Up until this afternoon, the final vote on CISPA was supposed to be tomorrow. Then, abruptly, it was moved up today—and the House voted in favor of its passage with a vote of 248-168. But that's not even the worst part. The vote...