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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 SanityCheck on Thursday October 22 2015, @07:16PM
I hope they have a game-plan and they will put their money where their mouth is. Otherwise this is just a "we tried our best dear customer" PR stunt.
(Score: 1) by Francis on Thursday October 22 2015, @09:15PM
This is just one more reason not to trust companies with unencrypted files. Or if you're really worried, not even trust them with the encrypted copies.
Does anybody have any recommendations for something like encryptfs that works on Windows, Linux and FreeBSD?
(Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday October 22 2015, @10:47PM
Both Apple [arstechnica.com] and Dropbox [gizmodo.com] retain keys to your cloud data, and hand them over fairly freely when the cops come calling.
As far as I am concerned, neither one of these companies make good spokesmen for anti-CISA legislation. How serious can Congress take their advice, when they insist on maintaining their own back-doors?
SpiderOak would make a better privacy advocate. Even they are worried by this CISA legislation.
If It comes to pass, I'll probably move my stuff to https://tresorit.com/ [tresorit.com] (Zero Knowledge, and out of reach of any CISA backdoor requirements).
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