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| PingusPeriratus |
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 Registered Member #657 Joined: Fri May 01 2009, 06:32PMPosts: 1226 | The Cybersecurity Act of 2012, bipartisan legislation recently introduced by senators Joe Lieberman and Susan Collins, failed to pass a key vote in the Senate on Thursday. The bill had sought to provide an overarching framework to defend the United States' computer systems against cyber threats from foreign countries and from attacks on America's critical infrastructure, like the electricity grid. Unfortunately, in doing so, the bill granted companies new powers to spy on users, to share that information with the government, and to claim broad legal immunity for their actions. This would have created serious risks to privacy by creating a new spying regime where users could be surveilled as long as a company perceived any vague threat to its network. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/02/cybersecurity-act-surveillance-bill-disguise | ||
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| Gordon |
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 Registered Member #287 Joined: Thu Apr 03 2008, 09:06PMPosts: 445 | They don't give up, do they? Unfortunately they are, I think, likely to win in the end, and I suspect that the internet as I think of it may not survive much longer. It's already been largely taken over by the media big boys, and with ISPs, governments and "entrepreneurs" (I hate that word, but I suppose it's shorter than "immoral money-grabbing scumbags") trying to track this, monitor that and profit from the other I doubt if there will be much of genuine value left in five years' time. | ||
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| revrob |
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 Registered Member #372 Joined: Wed Apr 23 2008, 04:09PMPosts: 640 | I agree - I'm very pessimistic - we already have de facto commerc9ial CPI interception of mail and browsing here in the UK with inspection of content by commercial entities, for commercial gain - and law enforcement and gov connives at it - because thats the way they want it to be - they can get access to all that lovely data themselves when they want with minimal political fuss. And THAT is why no one prosecuted Phorm or Vodafone, or TalkTalk or Gmail or BTYahoo/Yahoo. | ||
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| revrob |
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| Registered Member #372 Joined: Wed Apr 23 2008, 04:09PMPosts: 640 | Evidence of the likelihood of what I said above being true - http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/trapwire-uk-government-surveillance-police-89124 Gov/police are up to their necks in DPI net surveillance by any means possible, and I suspect legality is very low on their list of priorities. They simply do not want us discussing this, complaining about it, or getting commercial companies prosecuted for it. | ||
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