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Oppose Cispa if you value any privacy in our digital world -

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/18/cispa-2013-house-vote-internet-privacy



. The US Congress is set to vote again on the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA).
. Worthy ideas in the abstract, but horrible in the details: cyber-security is a genuine concern
. Companies have new rights to monitor user actions and share data – including potentially sensitive user data – with the government without a warrant.
. Cispa overrides existing privacy law, and grants broad immunities to participating companies
. Information provided to the federal government under Cispa would be exempt from the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and other state laws that could otherwise require disclosure (unless some law other than Cispa already requires its provision to the government).

MY OPINION :
. I think what the US government is wrong, clearly because people go onto the internet for different and more fundamental reasons than to talk about the government, therefore, the fact that the government has the right to look at what people are doing can be seen as offensive as many people have private things which they do not want anyone to know not even the government as it is privacy.