Wednesday 28 October 2015

CISA passed. If we're going to make any progress on privacy, it's time to understand why.

CISA, a cybersecurity bill, passed in the senate on October 27. Why did it pass?

It's easy to say that it passed because senators are in the pocket of corporations. But then it feels like we're fighting against corporations, who have mountains of money! We can't win that fight. We have to understand why this bill was proposed, and address those corporate motivations.

We know the motivation. This article puts it plainly:

CISA, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (S. 754), will allow private companies to share cyber-threat data with the federal government, including personal user data, in an effort to prevent cyberattacks, such as those on the scale of Target, Home Depot, and Sony. (emphasis mine)

CISA passed because US companies are tired of being constantly attacked online. They are hemorrhaging money and/or losing the public's trust.

ref1 ref2 ref3 I could go on all day

US companies are lobbying for SOPA, CISA, and many other cybersecurity bills to protect their corporate interests, their trade secrets, their financial assets, and their public image. But cybersecurity experts agree that CISA won't protect these things! ref If we can work with US corporations to protect their interests in a way that doesn't compromise our privacy, we can win this.

Encryption and security standards have got to be a step in the right direction on both fronts. Education campaigns on can help spread the word. What measures can we take to demonstrate to US corporations that we want proper security just like they do?



by machton http://ift.tt/1H9B8sV

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