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April 27, 2012 04:30 am GMT
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U.S. House Passes Controversial CISPA Cybersecurity Bill 248 To 168
This afternoon, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) by a vote of 248 to168. Unlike SOPA, which focused on copyright violations, CISPA wants to give Internet companies and the U.S. government the tools to protect and defend themselves against cyber attacks by sharing information with each other. Critics, however, argued that this information sharing would be happening with very little oversight and would put Americans privacy rights at risk.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/_Cd_JrhU8_k/
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