Earlier this week, we covered CISPA and why it’s CISP-icious (suspicious. Get it? Ah? …I’ll get back to writing). Well, the controversial bill was recently amended and passed by the House.
For a quick reminder about why CISPA is sparking the Internet’s ire, here’s what Mashable had to say about the subject:
Privacy and civil liberties groups argue that CISPA would allow businesses such as Facebook to give the federal government (and the intelligence community) users’ private communications and other sensitive personal data.
The two parts of CISPA these groups consider most offensive are a national security clause and a liability clause. The first, they say, would allow CISPA to be used in any case where national security is deemed at risk — a potentially broad category. The second would protect any business that shares cybersecurity information from lawsuits — including suits from users who think their private information may have been shared without justification.
