Blog Posts Tagged with "legislation"
Your Rights To Online Privacy
October 28, 2012 Added by:Robert Siciliano
Obama’s framework consists of four elements: A Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights, a multi-stakeholder process to specify how the principles in the Bill of Rights apply in particular contexts, effective enforcement, and a commitment to increase interoperability with the US’s international partners...
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Dutch Govt Expresses Intent To Draft New Cybercrime Legislation
October 17, 2012 Added by:Matthijs R. Koot
On October 15th 2012, the Dutch Minister of Security & Justice (Ivo Opstelten) sent this letter to the Dutch parliament expressing intentions to draft new cybercrime legislation in the Netherlands. Here is my Dutch-to-English translation of the entire letter...
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The Derecho Named Cyber
October 10, 2012 Added by:Joel Harding
The discussions we had back in the mid-90s are still ongoing, we still don’t have a proper information sharing cybersecurity bill and people still don’t trust the government to maintain their privacy. Please, members of congress and business leaders, work on cybersecurity as if our lives depend on it...
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Stop the Next SOPA and CISPA: Register to Vote for Internet Freedom
September 30, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Congress needs to know that the Internet is watching and that users won’t sit on the sidelines as technology intended to connect us and bring knowledge to people worldwide is turned against us for the purposes of censorship and surveillance...
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Do Not Track Update: The Fight for User Privacy Continues
September 25, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF and other digital rights advocates are continuing to fight for Do Not Track, a one-click browser-based signal users can turn on to tell websites not to track their online browsing habits. In this article, we’ll be reviewing recent Congressional hearings about online tracking...
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House Passes the Broad Warrantless Spying Bill
September 23, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
The House voted to renew the dangerous FISA Amendment Act which hands the NSA broad, warrantless surveillance powers for another five years. Sadly, the House refused to add any oversight powers or privacy protections, despite evidence the NSA has used it to spy on Americans...
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An Open Letter to Senator Rockefeller
September 20, 2012 Added by:Richard Stiennon
Like in many matters involving science and technology, scientists and technologists should be brought into future deliberations on cyber legislation. The technologists that make the Internet operate and the security experts that battle to defend it need to be brought to the table...
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Don’t Wait for UK Snoopers’ Charter: Encrypt Wikipedia Now
September 17, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Rather than waiting for bad legislation, Wikipedians should take this opportunity to make one relatively small technical change that could serve as a bulwark against all kinds of government surveillance, filtering and data retention laws...
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TPP and its Impact on Digital Freedom
September 12, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
"Disciplines related to IPR could impact how people gain access to the Internet and could constrain what people may say online or how they can collaborate and share content. It is imperative that the IPR chapter of the proposed TPP agreement not inappropriately constrain online activity..."
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There is No Need for a Cybersecurity Executive Order
September 11, 2012 Added by:Richard Stiennon
Forcing utility operators, banks, and earth resources companies to comply with frameworks based on outmoded asset and vulnerability methodologies will distract them from implementing threat based defenses. The Executive Order, if issued, will do much more harm than good...
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TPP: Don’t Let Them Trade Away Internet Freedom
August 28, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
The intellectual property (IP) chapter would have negative ramifications for freedom and innovation and second, the process has shut out multi-stakeholder participation and is shrouded in secrecy. The TPP is a threat because it rewrites global rules on IP enforcement and restrict the public domain...
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California Location Privacy Bill Passes Assembly
August 26, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
The bill requires law enforcement to obtain a search warrant anytime it requests location information from an electronic device. It codifies the Supreme Court's decision from earlier this year that the installation of a GPS device for purposes of an investigation requires a search warrant...
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Illinois Bars Employers from Obtaining Social Media Credentials
August 20, 2012 Added by:David Navetta
Although privacy advocates and federal regulators and legislators have primarily been focusing on consumer privacy issues, such as behavioral advertising and data mining, the significant changes in workplace privacy protections demand continued vigilance from employers...
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A Victory Over Cyber Spying
August 04, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Congress has been working to pass cybersecurity legislation for years – and EFF has fought to ensure that civil liberties weren’t sacrificed in the process. This year was the hardest: Congress got closer than ever to enacting a bill that could threaten the privacy of online communications. We fought back...
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Why the NSA Can’t Be Trusted to Run Cybersecurity Programs
August 01, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Senators John McCain and Kay Bailey Hutchison have proposed amendments that would hand the reins of our nation’s cybersecurity systems to the NSA. The agency's dark history, flouting of domestic law, and resistance to transparency makes it clear that the nation's cybersecurity should not be in its hands...
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New Cybersecurity Bill Patches Serious Vulnerabilities
July 24, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
We remain unpersuaded that any of the proposed cybersecurity measures are necessary and we still have concerns about certain sections of the bill, especially the sections on monitoring and countermeasures. But this was a big step in the direction of protecting online rights...
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- Trend Micro Discovers "SafeNet" - a New Targeted Espionage Operation Online
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- Bridging the Cybersecurity Divide, Why Security Innovation Must Lead the Way
- The Evolution of Industrial Control System Information Sharing
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