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- iHaveNet.com: Technology
by Kendall Burman
There is a need for cybersecurity legislation, but CISPA -- an overly broad bill that lacks restrictions on government abuse -- is not the right way to achieve it.
CISPA allows companies to voluntarily share information pertaining to suspected attacks on their networks with other companies and the government. Operators of networks have said they need clearer legal authority to share this information. However, there are three major problems with how CISPA would allow Internet users' information to be shared and used.
1. CISPA has an almost unlimited definition of what user information can be shared with the government. This definition should be narrowed to apply only to actual cyberattacks or threats.
2. CISPA would allow companies to share Internet users' information directly with the
3. CISPA would allow information shared with the government to be used for purposes unrelated to cybersecurity, including law enforcement purposes -- this has the potential to turn cybersecurity into a new surveillance program.
On top of this, CISPA supersedes all other privacy laws. If privacy protections for Internet users aren't built into the bill, they simply don't exist.
Legislation that secures networks can be achieved without posing these threats -- an important first step is to narrow the language.
The authors of CISPA have made some positive changes recently. Unfortunately, none of the changes gets to the heart of the privacy concerns that Internet users and advocacy groups have expressed.
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