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CISPA 'dead' in Senate, privacy concerns cited
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2013-04-26 08:01
The Senate will almost certainly kill a controversial cybersecurity bill, recently passed by the House, according to a U.S. Senate Committee member. The comments were first reported by U.S. News on Thursday.
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), the chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, said in a statement on April 18 that CISPA's privacy protections are "insufficient."
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Mozilla is first major tech company to denounce CISPA
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2012-05-02 05:58
Despite big name tech companies -- such as Facebook, Microsoft, and Oracle -- supporting the controversial Internet surveillance bill that passed in the House last week, Mozilla has come out against the legislation.
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How SOPA protests were used to push CISPA
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2012-04-27 06:51
The last thing authors and supporters of dangerous cybersecurity bill CISPA wanted was another SOPA on their hands.
CISPA’s authors and supporters set up a defensive strategy to head off the whiff of another SOPA by taking notes from the protest. And they may have succeeded.
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CISPA veto recommended by White House
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2012-04-26 05:16
Not a fan of CISPA? Fear not. President Barack Obama isn’t either. A Wednesday e-mail released by the Office of Management and Budget made very clear that should the bill reach the president’s desk in its current form, "his senior advisors would recommend that he veto the bill."
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EFF opposes CISPA on Hackers and Founders Panel
Submitted by l33tdawg on Sat, 2012-04-21 06:23
Yesterday, EFF participated in a panel discussion about CISPA moderated by CNET's Declan McCullagh and put on by Hackers and Founders. We were happy to have the opportunity to do so, and although we disagreed quite a bit with a key proponent of the bill, House Permanent Select Intelligence Committee staffer Jamil Jaffer, one area where we agreed is that more people should read the text of the bill.
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