This year’s Cybersecurity Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) comes with the same privacy invasions as the one killed in the Senate last year. But the House of Representatives passed it again, anyway, in spite of these violations and Obama’s threat to veto it.
Claiming to strengthen US protection against digital threats, the bill would still allow government agencies to collect personal data from private corporations without including any meaningful limitations to how that information is shared.
The bill was reintroduced in February this year in its original format and has undergone several amendments that have not yet satisfied the President or its many other critics.
If CISPA becomes law, it will be a major blow to our online privacy. Companies like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, or Google could legally share our private messages, status updates, photographs, and other data with the federal government -- without a warrant or our consent.
This incredibly invasive bill must be stopped now. Tell your senator to vote NO on CISPA!
We, the undersigned, are disappointed with the House of Representatives passing of this year's CISPA, and we count on the Senate to now protect privacy rights of American citizens that the House has failed to do.
The major concern about the bill is its broad definition of “cyber security“ and specifically what Evan Greer of Fight for the Future calls “sweeping legal protections for corporations that share our data,” while failing to provide proper limitations on how it is used.
Even though amendments were made to CISPA before the House passed it, critics say important proposals to protect privacy were either ignored or blocked.
A common-sense approach to cyber security is understandable, but it must be one that includes reasonable safeguards for protecting personal information.
As is, CISPA does not include those necessary safeguards; therefore we ask the Senate to stand against it.
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