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on Thursday October 22 2015, @06:09PM
from the the-ever-expanding-government dept.
from the the-ever-expanding-government dept.
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.
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(Score: 2) by Hyperturtle on Friday October 23 2015, @12:06AM
Yes, regardless of leanings, she is not leaning in to be a part of club we want to be a part of. She's a clear example of how she forgot that she was voted in to act as a democrat party member, and she is not supposed to reveal she's a marionette of the present control apparatus. Each party has to play their part. (there are, of course, good people trying to make a difference in many elected office positions. I think she is trying to get half-strength vampires under her control after biting them.)
The various freedoms that one comes to take for granted in a democracy are something she's tolerated and rarely seems to have endorsed. At least... in recent times. I wasn't paying attention to her until she got involved in how our liberties are to be preserved.
I recall her deciding to be against spying for a while, when a drone was caught spying on her. Prior to then it was only a little people problem, so when she was no longer immune to the problem, then, there ought to be a law to prevent that.
The clipper chip initiative did not work then, but there appears to be great success to get it to work now, in future proof fashion. Only criminals will have privacy if this sort of law passes.
(Score: 2) by Hyperturtle on Friday October 23 2015, @12:11AM
(I missed a span of years there in my haste to press next to continue and post the message. This is an addendum to my post...For those of you that do not remember, there was a Big Brother Inside logo campaign going on to bring attention to the government proposal to make everyone safe by putting in a government controlled encryption chip that by the means of which was not described to the public would for some reason never ever be crackable by anyone else and was purely to keep you and your fax machines and PDAs and storage devices totally safe and readable without requiring to beat you with a $5 wrench first because they could just get into it.
That initiative was defeated by many good people across the operating system ideology spectrums of the time [linux/windows/mac people, dos holdouts and then normal people like privacy advocates and so on]. It looks like the chip is no longer necessary for the government to compel organizations to get what they want, though.)