Compensation for that medical pot thingy

Post #407,058 by scoenye 12/19/15 1:04:36 PM Reply	Compensation for that medical pot thingy One of the other things snuck in the spending bill: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/16/congress_strips_out_privacy_protections_from_cisa_security_bill/ Under the original CISA legislation, companies would share their users' information with federal government departments once it had been anonymized. The government could then analyze it for online threats, while the companies received legal immunity from prosecution for breaking existing privacy agreements. But as the bill was amended, the privacy parts of the proposed law have been stripped away. Now companies don't have to anonymize data before handing it over. In addition, the government can use it for surveillance and for activities outside cybercrime. And in addition, companies don't have to report security failings even if they spot them. and Under the language of the legislation, all data handed over is immune from freedom of information requests. That will make it difficult for individuals to act and protect their privacy from government intrusion. The wording is so vague that even using whois could be construed as "malicious command and control" because it allows "unauthorized remote identification".
Post #407,060 by a6l6e6x 12/19/15 1:33:07 PM Reply	Big Brother bill! I wonder whose fingerprints are on that gem? Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #407,061 by boxley 12/19/15 2:19:59 PM Reply	whitehouse always look out for number one and don't step in number two
Post #407,063 by a6l6e6x 12/19/15 4:42:18 PM Reply	Setting up Trump? :) Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #407,068 by scoenye 12/19/15 7:02:47 PM Reply	Everyone, apparently Usually, the House variants are worse than the Senate's, but this was the other way round. And the final version was drafted by the TLAs.
Post #407,062 by Another Scott 12/19/15 4:38:42 PM Reply	Scott McNealy talked to us about this in 1999. "You have zero privacy anyway," Scott McNealy told a group of reporters and analysts Monday night at an event to launch his company's new Jini technology. "Get over it." McNealy's comments came only hours after competitor Intel (INTC) reversed course under pressure and disabled identification features in its forthcoming Pentium III chip. - Wired The EFF says Sheldon Whitehouse (not the WH) wanted some bad provisions in CISA that weren't included - EFF. But that's from November, so who knows what's in the final language. :-/ Cheers, Scott.

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