Comments about ‘In our opinion: Congress must balance needs for cyber security, privacy’

The Government has no business snooping through data without a warent. They can already get all the information they need on anyone by obtaining a warent.
What do you have to hide on the internet? What if your healthcare provider had access to all the internet searches you did on some symptoms you were having. What if the Government was your healthcare provider.
What if your anonymous status on the internet was made know to the NSA and other snooping government agencies, and your political online musings were taken seriously by analysts.
What if goverment had knew how much online baking you did and took interested in knowing your business?
Its a bad idead for Government to have access to information about US!
Cyber Security is being used as an excuse to take away more privacy.
Sure, the SLCPD website was taken down, instead of passing bills about it, TRY SECURING the web site! Yes that might entail hiring a competent person.

I strongly disagree with the conclusions of this editorial. Who penned it and what research did they do? CISPA is an extraordinarily short bill. It only does a couple of things.

Mostly it (1) short circuits the reasonable checks and balances where government agencies -- and even other interested third parties -- would normally need warrants or justified cause to get at contractually protected data and then (2) holds any business that gives or sells your data to any other entity (seemingly intended to be government agencies but not strictly restricted to them) completely harmless and unaccountable "any other laws notwithstanding."

This is bad legislation pure and simple. If I'm a large data warehouse, then I might kind of like the clause shielding me from any liability when I give or sell data on purpose or inadvertently (thus the distinct lack of company resources dedicated to "blackout" protests against it -- but as a private citizen, this is remarkably un-American and violates at least three of our Bill of Rights protections.

There is absolutely no reason for this legislation. The NSA, the FBI, our Defense forces, etc. *already* have all necessary authorities, powers, and abilities that they need to protect internet infrastructure.

I wish I believed that the federal government was really concerned about our security. With our borders leaking like a sieve and our troops making enemies all over the world with endless interventions, entangling alliances and undeclared wars with vast "collateral damage" and the NDAA cahallenging the safety and liberties of the people of this nation I suspect that there are other agendas dictating policy, influences actually harmful to our security as a nation as well as individuals.

Given these contexts I assume that this move to innovate and initiate new controls to internet privacy is a thinly-veiled effort to silence the voices for freedom and constitutional government in the citizenry of thenation, things Congress seems to care little or nothing about or to be actually impatient with.