Let’s Bring Digital Liberties into the Big Conversation
We’ve been CISPA’d again.
For a second year the US House has passed the embarrassingly vague Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, a bill that could scatter your personal information like a tornado hitting a trailer park. Echoing last year, the Obama administration has threatened to veto CISPA if it fails to incorporate privacy controls, but we shouldn’t have to rely on presidential intervention or the Senate’s questionable wisdom to save us. Though Congress is gifted in the arts of incompetence and believes digital liberties only matter to basement-dwelling teens, we cannot entirely vilify the House, either. If there’s one thing our representatives actually represent about us, it is our ignorance of technology.