Das US-Repräsentantenhaus hat vergangene Nacht den Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) beschlossen. Die EFF kritisiert die Entscheidung und hofft jetzt darauf, dass der US-Senat das Überwachungsgesetz noch stoppen kann: EFF Condemns CISPA, Vows to Take Fight to the Senate.
„As the Senate takes up the issue of cybersecurity in the coming weeks, civil liberties will be a central issue. We must do everything within our power to safeguard the privacy rights of individual Internet users and ensure that Congress does not sacrifice those rights in a rush to pass vaguely-worded cybersecurity bills,“ said Lee Tien, EFF Senior Staff Attorney.
„Hundreds of thousands of Internet users spoke out against this bill, and their numbers will only grow as we move this debate to the Senate. We will not stand idly by as the basic freedoms to read and speak online without the shadow of government surveillance are endangered by such overbroad legislative proposals,“ said Rainey Reitman, EFF Activism Director.
US-Präsident Barack Obama hat bereits angekündigt, sein Veto bei CISPA einlegen zu wollen.
Viele kritische stimmen zu CISPA hatte die EFF im Vorfeld hier zusammen gestellt: Voices of Opposition Against CISPA.
Gestern sendete DemocracyNow ein Interview mit Jacob Appelbaum zum Thema: Targeted Hacker Jacob Appelbaum on CISPA, Surveillance and the „Militarization of Cyberspace“.
Computer security researcher Jacob Appelbaum argues the measures included in the proposed Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) would essentially legalize military surveillance of U.S. citizens. „When they want to dramatically expand their ability to do these things in a so-called legal manner, it’s important to note what they’re trying to do is to legalize what they have already been doing,“ Appelbaum says. He is a developer and advocate for the Tor Project, a network enabling its users to communicate anonymously on the internet, and has volunteered with WikiLeaks. [includes rush transcript]
Jacob Appelbaum wird auch kommende Woche auf der re:publica zum Thema sprechen: Resisting the Surveillance State and its network effects.
(*Zuerst hatte ich US-Kongress geschrieben. Das war falsch, gemeint war das US-Repräsentantenhaus)