Apple and Dropbox said Tuesday that they oppose a controversial cybersecurity bill that, according to critics, would give the government sweeping new powers to spy on Americans in the name of protecting them from hackers.
The announcement by the two companies comes days before the Senate expects to vote on the legislation, known as the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, or CISA.
"We don't support the current CISA proposal," Apple said in a statement. "The trust of our customers means everything to us and we don't believe security should come at the expense of their privacy."
Dropbox said that the bill needed more privacy protections in order to win its support.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday October 22 2015, @09:17PM
Chicago politics. When you elect a man from a city with a long history of prominent corruption, things like the current situation are bound to happen.
Take one look at Chicago [ytmnd.com] and see for yourself.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Friday October 23 2015, @12:24AM
I fully endorse the notion that Chicago is the epicenter of evil on Earth. Its people are cruel, small-minded, torpid, dull, yet arrogant. They represent the worst of the small town crossed with the worst of the big city, as if the town from Children of the Corn had grown into a metropolis. Furthermore, its downtown is built directly over an Indian burial ground; anyone who ever saw Poltergeist knows exactly what that means. I could tell a thousand stories about the depravity and stupidity of that town's people. But suffice it to say that if we were to vote any city in America off the island, that would be it, followed closely by Washington DC. Or vaporized with a nuclear weapon. Either one works.
Obama is, however, not a Chicagoan. He was born in Hawaii. He grew up in Kansas. He went to college in Boston. Yeah, great, he got a job teaching law at the University of Chicago. But glossing that into "He's a Chicagoan, steeped in the Chicago way, corrupt to the core" blah blah blah is totally ludicrous. Chicago politics are corrupt, but he's a dude that skipped across that cesspool into a Senate seat and then straight into the Oval Office. He did not work his way up through the ranks. He didn't kiss the rings of every precinct chief and alderman in the city.
Is he corrupt? Yes. Is he worthless? Yes. But it's in that 1%-er, Wall Street worthless POS old-boys kind of worthless corruption, not a knuckle breaking, mouth-breathing Chicago thug kind of way. Everyone who repeats that chestnut instantly reveals himself as a clueless rube with no meaningful insight to offer.
Washington DC delenda est.