What does CISPA provide? CISPA
" ... provide[s] for the sharing of certain cyber threat intelligence and cyber threat information between the intelligence community and cybersecurity entities."
"The term ‘cyber threat intelligence’ means information in the possession of an element of the intelligence community directly pertaining to a vulnerability of, or threat to, a system or network of a government or private entity, including information pertaining to the protection of a system or network from efforts to degrade, disrupt, or destroy such system or network; or theft or misappropriation of private or government information, intellectual property, or personally identifiable information."
"[C]lassified cyber threat intelligence may only be shared by an element of the intelligence community with certified entities[1]; or a person with an appropriate security clearance to receive such cyber threat intelligence ...
"Cyber threat information ... shared with the Federal Government shall be exempt from disclosure under section 552 of title 5, United States Code ...
"No civil or criminal cause of action shall lie or be maintained in Federal or State court against a protected entity, self-protected entity, cybersecurity provider, or an officer, employee, or agent of a protected entity, self-protected entity, or cybersecurity provider, acting in good faith for using cybersecurity systems or sharing information in accordance with this section; or for not acting on information obtained or shared in accordance with this section."
Who supports CISPA? Google, among others. Google helped write it. Google opposed SOPA ... because they had 'a better idea' : CISPA. Google will be a certified entity. The US Government will 'drop a dime' ... call Google ... on you or I or anyone on whom it wants information and Google, whose ability to amass and whose expertise at searching, sorting and analysing every sort of information - not least emails - of all of its 'account holders' ... and their unfortunate correspondents ... will promptly deliver the goods on any and all of us to the US Government, and neither will the Googleplex tell us nor will it be liable to prosecution for having done so.
No more courts. No more stinkin' badges. Just the unspeakably evil 'clean machine' buried in the very heart of the Googleplex. The Director of National Intelligence will be judge and jury, and Google the executioner as regards your personal data ... just as Barack Obama is now literally judge and jury, and the CIA literally the executioner of any and everyone of us on earth.
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."
This is the new, US, model of totalitarianism. And as you might expect it is 'new and improved!', and 'bigger and better than ever before'. It thoroughly envolves the 'private sector' - the Googleplex, where the competence lies - in the utter and complete debasement of civil and human rights in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
[1] "The term certified entity means a protected entity, self-protected entity, or cybersecurity provider that possesses or is eligible to obtain a security clearance, as determined by the Director of National Intelligence; and is able to demonstrate to the Director of National Intelligence that such provider or such entity can appropriately protect classified cyber threat intelligence."
