Critics Claim CISPA Would Authorize Hacking

The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) has recently expressed concerns that the CISPA cyber-security bill, currently making its way through the House, would effectively authorize hacking.

"What the bill does not say is that in looking for cyber-threat information, you can examine only your own network. If you think the threat is on somebody else's computer, you have the authority ... to go get it," said Greg Nojeim, CDT's senior counsel. "It authorizes cyber-security criminal acts that are described in this very bill," he continued. "The last place one would think you'd find new authority to hack would be in cyber-security legislation."

The Center for Democracy and Technology, along with dozens of other privacy advocates such as the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Constitution Project, sent a letter to the House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday, urging the lawmakers to hold an open markup of CISPA.

CISPA was approved by the House by a 248-168 vote last April, but ended in political purgatory after lawmakers in the Senate failed to see eye-to-eye with their congressional counterparts.

Read more -here-

• Dropbox breach exposes customer credentials, authentication data
• Google: Passkey authentications top 1 billion across 400 million accounts
• FTC fines Razer for misrepresenting COVID masks as N95s
• FCC fines Verizon, AT&T other major carriers nearly $200 million for sharing customer data
• Federal regulators accuse Amazon executives of deleting messages
• FCC restores net neutrality rules