Cispa

The cyber security bill known as CISPA should not be passed because it violates the basic civil rights of Americans. The United States House of Representatives approved the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA or H.R. 3523) on April 26, 2012. CISPA will now have to make its way through the Senate. CISPA would allow businesses to share information about their users with the federal government. The House failed to recognize, or simply didn’t take into account, that this is a direct violation of the 4th amendment of the Constitution. The bill was poorly written in loose terms and would give the government too much power. In addition, the current generation in office does not comprehend the internet enough to enable these kinds of laws. The bill is unnecessary and unreasonable. CISPA should not be passed into law because it gives the government too much power and infringes the privacy rights of Americans.

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act is a proposed law in the United States which would permit the sharing of internet traffic information between the government and private businesses. The bill was introduced on November 30, 2011 by U.S. Representative Michael Rogers. The alleged purpose of this bill is to aid the government in investigating cyber threats. As previously stated, this bill was passed in the House of Representatives on April 26, 2012. Now CISPA will make its way through the Senate where it will hopefully be shot down because of the democratic influence. There are currently 53 democrats in the 112th Congress who will hopefully refute CISPA due to president Obama's recent veto threat.

In a statement from the White House on April 25, 2012, President Obama threatened to veto CISPA if it ever got into his desk in its current form. The statement points out very many good points on how CISPA puts the privacy of Americans at risk. The final statement in the document reads, "However, for reasons...