Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2013—Obama, Democrats, privacy organizations still opposed to CISPA:
The White House hasn't actually issued a veto threat over the current House efforts to revive last year's disastrous cybersecurity bill, CISPA, but it's all but done so.
The Obama administration issued a statement Thursday that indicated it's not likely to support a cybersecurity bill approved by the U.S. House Intelligence Committee this week.
While stopping short of an outright veto threat that many privacy activists may have wanted, the statement made clear that the administration does not believe the bill in its current form does enough to safeguard personal information.
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The pushback from privacy organizations, the White House, and tech corporations has resulted in some modifications in the bill that will go to the House floor next week. But not enough to satisfy the White House or privacy experts. For example, the bill still would allow information about us, regular Americans, to be shared with the National Security Agency. There's still no requirement that any personally identifiable information about us that is shared between companies and the government is stripped out.
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today's Kagro in the Morning show: A gun in every story? Well, not quite. Another GunFAIL story pushed into the nat'l headlines: Eric Harris shot and killed by a "reserve deputy" who mistook his own gun for a Taser. What's a "reserve deputy?" Should there even be any such thing? They're breaking records (of sorts) for use of beanbag shotgun rounds ... in SD. Gun enthusiast's normal arguments turned upside-down to argue TSA is a waste and guns should be allowed on airliners. A man commits suicide at the Capitol. Amateurs take selfies. that's gross. TV journos do stand-ups, that's news. And an anti-vax mom changes her mind, after all seven of her kids get whooping cough.
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