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gifpeanutbutter: SOPA? PIPA? No, worse. CISPA. Spread THIS like KONY. SOPA? PIPA? No, worse. CISPA. Spread THIS like KONY. SOPA? PIPA? No, worse. CISPA. Spread THIS like KONY. “CISPA lacks such protections for individual rights. CISPA’s ‘information sharing’ regime allows the transfer of vast amounts of data, including sensitive information like internet use history or the content of emails, to any agency in the government including military and intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency or the Department of Defense Cyber Command.” What you can do about it: Yes, you can tweet congress and anyone in your local/state office — however, they sometimes seem immune to our voices. So how else can you spread this? Use Facebook! This is a way to get PUBLIC attention to this issue. Post on your elected officials’ pages and demand a response/action to be taken. Don’t just post on political figures’ pages—use the MEDIA. That’s the key, right? Go to your local radio and news stations’ sites online/Facebook pages to spread awareness about CISPA and your privacy rights. Getting enough attention on a radio station or on a local news station is enough to attract enough awareness for national news. Call the radio! Get a group of friends to do so and you’ll eventually get through. Post on your own Facebook/Twitter about CISPA and include hash tags to build awareness. Share graphics/links to family members and friends and ask them to pass it on. People are more likely to click links when they know someone or if they are referred to the content. Express the urgency about privacy rights, as this will make others think about how this issue might affect them as well. Read here for more links including the full bill. FOUND FROM REDDIT: Action list. Step One. Sign this petition. Make sure to Share on Twitter and Facebook. Avaaz Petition. Link Step Two Call your representative. One of these methods. EFF Message your representative or Call your congressional representatives and urge them to vote against CISPA or Contact Congress Step Three Tell the guy that wrote it what you think. Primary Sponsor Mike Rogers (MI) Twitter: @RepMikeRogersTwitter and Facebook Send them your disapproval You can also send him a personal email Zip code for MI 8th district is: 48346 Step Four Appeal directly to the president. He already does not approve of the bill. Let’s make sure we say we agree. We the people petition. LINK Step Five Make note of these companies. Here is a list of companies. It is big though. link Extra Credit Great Comment Below. Link and Reddit action list or Donate to the reddit TestPAC. Link More Extra Credit Tweeting @barakobama with something like this: Commit to a veto on CISPA or lose my vote. #CISPA #StopCISPA #Obama2012 Share this Great Image Explanation and Another Great Image Explanation Join this Facebook Group Youtube video. Link News on CISPA Forbes The Gaurdian RT LA Times Original Post: Source CISPA could allow any private company to share vast amounts of sensitive, private data about its customers with the government. CISPA would override all other federal and state privacy laws, and allow a private company to share nearly anything—from the contents of private emails and Internet browsing history to medical, educational and financial records—as long as it “directly pertains to” a “cyber threat,” which is broadly defined. CISPA does not require that data shared with the government be stripped of unnecessary personally-identifiable information. A private company may choose to anonymize the data it shares with the government. However, there is no requirement that it does so—even when personally-identifiable information is unnecessary for cybersecurity measures. For example, emails could be shared with the full names of their authors and recipients. A company could decide to leave the names of its customers in the data it shares with the government merely because it does not want to incur the expense of deleting them. This is contrary to the recommendations of the House Republican Cybersecurity Task Force and other bills to authorize information sharing, which require companies to make a reasonable effort to minimize the sharing of personally-identifiable information. CISPA would allow the government to use collected private information for reasons other than cybersecurity. The government could use any information it receives for “any lawful purpose” besides “regulatory purposes,” so long as the same use can also be justified by cybersecurity or the protection of national security. This would provide no meaningful limit—a government official could easily create a connection to “national security” to justify nearly any type of investigation. CISPA would give Internet Service Providers free rein to monitor the private communications and activities of users on their networks. ISPs would have wide latitude to do anything that can be construed as part of a “cybersecurity system,” regardless of any other privacy or telecommunications law. CISPA would empower the military and the National Security Agency (NSA) to collect information about domestic Internet users. Other information sharing bills would direct private information from domestic sources to civilian agencies, such as the Department of Homeland Security. CISPA contains no such limitation. Instead, the Department of Defense and the NSA could solicit and receive information directly from American companies, about users and systems inside the United States. CISPA places too much faith in private companies, to safeguard their most sensitive customer data from government intrusion. While information sharing would be voluntary under CISPA, the government has a variety of ways to pressure private companies to share large volumes of customer information. With complete legal immunity, private companies have few clear incentives to resist such pressure. There is also no requirement that companies ever tell their customers what they have shared with the government, either before or after the fact. As informed consumers, Americans expect technology companies to have clear privacy policies, telling us exactly how and when the company will use and share our personal data, so that we can make informed choices about which companies have earned our trust and deserve our business. CISPA really is the Big Brother law.
538 ♥ 04.24.12
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