Dive summary:
- Reddit co-founder, Alexis Ohanian, has posted a video with Wired showing him calling Google to try to talk to CEO Larry Page about CISPA bill; Ohanian is told there is no employee there by that name.
- The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) was passed in the house on Thursday despite public opposition and the White House's threat to veto; a companion bill is planned for the Senate.
- Opponents of CISPA are concerned that the bill gives corporations and organizations the ability to share digital information with any other entity, including the military, without being required to strip personally identifiable information from the records first.
From the article:
“'CISPA is an extreme proposal that allows companies that hold our very sensitive information to share it with any company or government entity they choose, even directly with military agencies like the NSA, without first stripping out personally identifiable information,' Michelle Richardson, legislative counsel at the ACLU’s Washington Legislative Office, said in a statement. 'We will work with Congress to make sure that the next version of information sharing legislation unequivocally resolves this issue, as well as tightens immunity provisions and protects personal information. Cybersecurity can be done without sacrificing Americans’ privacy online.'”