While all eyes were on Boston and the manhunt for the two bombers in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing, the House of Representatives was passing CISPA – a bill that will allow companies to hand over our data to the government without a warrant. Of course, this violation of our Fourth Amendment rights is all in the name of security.

CISPA bridges a gap between the private firms that can access your data for nefarious purposes — they would likely never do this — to the U.S. government.

U.S. firms voluntarily handing data along the one-way street to the U.S. government effectively means the Fourth Amendment doesn’t have to apply; it’s not snooping if it was handed to the government under “cybersecurity” grounds.

By this point, the U.S. government can do just about anything it likes with your data once it’s in its hands, in spite of the Fourth Amendment and notwithstanding lacking a search warrant. The kicker is that this is allowed as long as it’s lawful and pertains to “cybersecurity purposes,” rather than “national security” purposes. But because the language in CISPA is so ill defined, it could be used for many more reasons than were initially considered.

According to privacy and civil liberties group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), even though the data was passed to the government for reasons pertaining only to “cybersecurity,” it can then be used to investigate other crime, not limited to cybersecurity crime, such as the “criminal exploitation of minor, protecting individuals from death or serious physical injury, or protecting the national security of the United States.”

But it all flows through the U.S. Department of Justice, first and foremost, which can then be disseminated throughout government and its agencies, onto the FBI, the National Security Agency (NSA), Immigration and Customs, and so on. Even the U.S. Department of Agriculture can take on your data and use it against you, should you be fishing without a license.

Read the whole thing, then go here to find out if your representative voted for this bipartisan turd. It’ headed to the Senate, so you might want to give your Senator a call before it comes up for a vote there.

http://lonelyconservative.com/2013/04/ho...Conservative%29

What's the difference in CISPA & the Patriot Act?

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What's the difference in CISPA & the Patriot Act?

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