ALERT: CISPA Passes House, moves to Senate - Contact ur Senators and Reid to STOP CISPA

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Mod: Senate Contacts: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
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34 Civil Liberties organizations that oppose CISPA:https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/04/33-civil-liberties-organizations-oppose-cispa-after-amendments

Vote on H.R. 624, CISPA, scheduled for Thursday, April 18 (calendar here)

FAQs about the bill:

https://www.eff.org/cybersecurity-bill-faq

One of the FAQs:

Under CISPA, what can a private company do?

Under CISPA, any company can “use cybersecurity systems to identify and obtain cyber threat information to protect the rights and property” of the company, and then share that information with third parties, including the government, so long as it is for “cybersecurity purposes.” Whenever these prerequisites are met, CISPA is written broadly enough to permit your communications service providers to share your emails and text messages with the government, or your cloud storage company could share your stored files.

Right now, well-established laws like the Cable Communications Policy Act, the Wiretap Act, the Video Privacy Protection Act, and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act provide judicial oversight and other privacy protections that prevent companies from unnecessarily sharing your private information, including the content of your emails.

And these laws expressly allow lawsuits against companies that go too far in divulging your private information. CISPA threatens these protections by declaring that key provisions in CISPA are effective “notwithstanding any other law,” a phrase that essentially means CISPA would override the relevant provisions in all other laws—including privacy laws. CISPA also creates a broad immunity for companies against both civil and criminal liability. CISPA provides more legal cover for companies to share large swaths of potentially personal and private information with the government.
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Objectionable provisions within CISPA:

- Eviscerating existing privacy laws by giving overly broad legal immunity to companies who share users' private information, including the content of communications, with the government.

- Authorizing companies to disclose users’ data directly to the NSA, a military agency that operates secretly and without public accountability.

- Broad definitions that allow users’ sensitive personal information to be used for a range of purposes as long as it pertains to "cybersecurity".
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The bill was marked up by the Intelligence Committee a couple days ago behind closed doors. Some slightly good amendments were passed but it did not change the overall bill.


CALL AND EMAIL YOUR CONGRESSMAN!

If you call your Congressman and they don't take your name/address, send them an email too since they won't know you already contacted them.

Find your Congressman's contact info here:

http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/

Roll call on House vote passing CISPA: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll117.xml
 
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It's important that as many people read this and take action as possible.
Maybe it's a good idea to also post this topic in 'General politics' as it may be viewed by more people there.
 
I moved the rally live feed above it and will move the cispa thing back above it after the rally
 
K. I want it to be tweeted out to the forum list and it may need to be on top for that. I didn't realize there was an event coming right up that it was blocking when I first promoted it, though.
 
Good targets would be Radel, Salmon, Bridenstine, Meadows, Stockman and Mullin.
They're freshmen and it would be useful to know where they stand on this.
 
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Under CISPA, what can I do if a company improperly hands over private information to the government?

Almost nothing. Even if the company violates your privacy beyond what CISPA would permit, the government does not have to notify the user whose information was improperly handed over—the government only notifies the company.

CISPA provides legal immunity to a company for many actions done to or with your private information, as long as the company acted in "good faith." This is an extremely powerful immunity, because it is quite hard to show that a company did not act in good faith. These liability protections can cover actions the company uses to identify and obtain threat information and the subsequent sharing of that information with others—including the government. The immunity also covers "decisions made based on cyber threat information," a dangerously vague provision that has never been defined.
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More FAQs here:
https://www.eff.org/cybersecurity-bill-faq
 
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[edit - ok those of you who have looked at this thread and are wanting to do stuff come to chat please]
 
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IBM launching CISPA advocacy tour

Nearly 200 senior IBM executives are flying into Washington to press for the passage of a controversial cybersecurity bill that will come up for a vote in the House this week.

The IBM executives will pound the pavement on Capitol Hill Monday and Tuesday, holding nearly 300 meetings with lawmakers and staff. Over the course of those two days, their mission is to convince lawmakers to back a bill that’s intended to make it easier for industry and government to share information about cyber threats with each other in real time.

“We’re going to put our shoe leather where our mouth is,” Chris Padilla, vice president of governmental affairs at IBM, told The Hill.

“The message we're going to give [lawmakers] is going to be a very simple, clear message: support the passage of CISPA,” he later added.

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The company believes the best way to thwart a cyberattack is to encourage companies to share more data about malicious source code and other online threats with the government and their private-sector peers so they can take steps to address it, according to Padilla.

“It’s our experience that the most effective thing you can do when a cyberattack occurs is to share information quickly between government and industry and between industry actors in real time in order to find where the attack is coming from and to shut it down,” he said.
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More:
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/293715-ibm-launching-cispa-advocacy-tour
 
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