The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) passed the House of Representatives on Friday and will now head to the upper Senate for further deliberation. This has happened before, but opponents of the controversial CISPA state that it poses a major threat to Fourth Amendment rights. After two days of debate and discussion, the bill was passed 288-127 in favor. Seventeen members of the House abstained from voting.
Proponents of the bill believe it will allow the U.S. government to stop cyber-attacks in their tracks. The bill will also amend the National Security Act. This change would allow U.S. intelligence services to give classified data to those who do not have clearance.
CISPA will allow companies like Facebook, Twitter, Google, and other private sector technology or telecoms companies, including your cell phone service provider, to search personal and sensitive data of average U.S. residents to identify “threat information”. This information may then be shared with other firms and the U.S. government without a court-ordered warrant........
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