And hovercars. Privacy has prevented hovercars.
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Christopher Howard
<christopher.howard@frigidcode.com> wrote:
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> Another interesting bill was passed by Congress recently called CISPA,
> the "Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act". Among other
> things, it gives "cybersecurity providers" (basically, private
> security organizations working for corporations) the ability to freely
> give personal information about employees, and any other data they
> want, to the Feds, without any criminal liabilities. (Except in
> certain very unlikely circumstances.)
>
> Supposedly Obama promised to veto it... but coming from the guy who
> signed ACTA in secret, I'm keeping an eye open.
>
> Anyway, you can make your own assessment:
>
> The latest text:
>
> http://intelligence.house.gov/sites/intelligence.house.gov/files/documents/DiscussionDraftHR3523.pdf
>
> Additional articles:
>
> http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2170999/passes-controversial-cispa-despite-obama-veto-threat
> https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120410/12180518442/cispa-is-really-bad-bill-heres-why.shtml/
> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120413/15420218488/new-draft-cispa-announced-some-progress-still-big-problems.shtml
>
> Brief rant:
>
> I'm getting REALLY tired of seeing the word "cyber" in all these
> stupid bills popping up. I think the next I see the words "cyber
> threat" or "cyber security" or "cyber terrorism" in a bill, I'm going
> to rip out my monitor and throw it through my window. For heaven's
> sake, we don't live in the matrix... if you are going to make
> technology laws, talk about real things like servers, ISPs, spammers,
> DOS attacks, and so forth, and stop using lame sci-fi terminology that
> can be broadly interpreted to mean just about anything.
>
> - --
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