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posted by CoolHand on Friday April 24 2015, @12:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the we-got-your-privacy-right-here dept.

CONGRESS IS HELLBENT on passing a cybersecurity bill that can stop the wave of hacker breaches hitting American corporations. And they’re not letting the protests of a few dozen privacy and civil liberties organizations get in their way.

On Wednesday the House of Representatives voted 307-116 to pass the Protecting Cyber Networks Act, a bill designed to allow more fluid sharing of cybersecurity threat data between corporations and government agencies. That new system for sharing information is designed to act as a real-time immune system against hacker attacks, allowing companies to warn one another via government intermediaries about the tools and techniques of advanced hackers. But privacy critics say it also threatens to open up a new backchannel for surveillance of American citizens, in some cases granting the same companies legal immunity to share their users’ private data with government agencies that include the NSA.

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/house-passes-cybersecurity-bill-despite-privacy-protests/

[Related]: http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/239592-white-house-supports-house-cyber-bills-with-reservations

 
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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by SrLnclt on Friday April 24 2015, @01:48AM

    by SrLnclt (1473) on Friday April 24 2015, @01:48AM (#174505)

    Here's how everyone voted on H.R. 1560 [house.gov], the Protecting Cyber Networks Act and H.R. 1731, the National Cybersecurity Protection Advancement Act of 2015. I hope a few of us remember this list next time your congressman/congresswomen is up for reelection.

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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by davester666 on Friday April 24 2015, @08:12AM

    by davester666 (155) on Friday April 24 2015, @08:12AM (#174578)

    Here's the thing.

    You need WAY more than "a few of us".

    You need thousands and thousands of people to all vote of someone else. Even more if the vote is split between two other people.

    This thing ain't gonna do it. Maybe if they passed a 'king for a day' bill, where your elected senator and/or congressperson can, for one 24 period per year, go from door to door fucking whomever they want, however they want, and the person can't say no. Maybe.