'Stop Cyber Spying Week' aims to eradicate CISPA — RT

Americans who don’t file their taxes or an extension this week will be left waiting for the IRS to come knocking at their door, but is that the biggest threat the government poses right now? Some watchdog groups warn: not at all.
Opponents of online censorship bills being considered by Congress under the guise of the nation’s cybersecurity concerns are re-launching a counter-campaign this week. Advocates fighting for an open Internet are concerned about how the federal government is attempting to once again restrict access to the Web for millions of Americans, and once again are waging a war on the lawmakers looking to extinguish the freedom of information.
Only four months after a massive campaign to crush SOPA — the Stop Online Piracy Act — ended in the bill’s collapse, activists are once again taking their “Leave our Internet alone” message to the Web. The US Congress is expected to have a vote regarding SOPA’s top-secret cousin next week — the Cyber Intelligence Sharing & Protection Act of 2011, or CISPA — and if its opponents have anything to do with it, this bill will be brought to a crushing defeat thanks to angry Web users ready to fight for their rights to surf.
“CISPA … would allow companies to monitor private email, Internet searches, and other online activity and then shareinformation with the government under an excessively broad definition of a cyber threat,” cautions the DC-based Center for Democracy & Technology (DCT). “Under CIPSA, the government could do almost anything with this information, including using it for purposes not related to cybersecurity. The information could go directly to the National Security Agency, a military agency that operates secretly and with little public accountability.”
Sound spooky? It’s certainly not sci-fi and some are worried CISPA could become a reality soon. Under the bill, the government can dig into and share any information "directly pertaining to a vulnerability of, or threat to" a computer network, but what constitutes those attacks is really open ended.
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