CISPA

SOPA is back, renamed and ready to go. We have once more chance to take this down, and take it down for good. But we're still short about 13,000 and time is running out. The petition is linked below, I've already signed. Your turn.

CISPA would grant companies more power to obtain threat information (such as from private communications of users) and to disclose that data to the government without a warrant -- including sending data to the National Security Agency. But it leaves too much room for abuse. The way CISPA is worded, it would grant the government the right to go through your private information and sell it out to companies purely for profit. You would have no privacy whatsoever, from texts to emails. Companies would be immune, no matter how they used this information. It even rewards companies for collecting data, intercepting/modifying communications, and providing the government with any information they find.  In the name of security, they'll say. They can share anything they deem a cyberthreat (which is loosely defined in this bill) with basically anyone they want, and you can't do a damn thing. You don't even have the right to know what exactly they're gathering, be it name, phone number, address, anything.
Let's not forget that if you share anything, and I mean anything that the government or corporations don't like, or somehow inconveniences them (say, openly disapproving  of a government official?) you can legally be named a security threat.

petitions.whitehouse.gov/petit… sign the petition
action.eff.org/o/9042/p/dia/ac… tell your representatives you don't approve of this bull
www.eff.org/cybersecurity-bill… learn more