Posts tagged Cispa

The pace which the United States Congress appears set to clear all legal impediments to the state’s access to private information is bewildering. Salon writes: “Congress is seriously considering a bill called the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA). Intended to allow information sharing both between corporations and between corporations and the government, it presents serious dangers to individual privacy. The most important parts of the proposed act permit corporations to share information about their customers with each other and with the government if they assert that this information sharing is necessary for national security.”

* Update 27.04: The buggers passed it