I'm back from vacation - and, more importantly, back from a bout of exhaustion that had me putting blogging at the bottom of my list for at least a week.
I was already to come back and tell you about my vacation and how we drove 16 hours to North Carolina and about how I was a basket case during the Boston bombing nightmare because if we weren't in North Carolina I would have made my family go to the marathon because I LOVE it.
But then the US House of Representatives passed CISPA and I realized it was more important to spend today asking you to call your Senators and ask them NOT to pass it.
You can read more about CISPA here but basically it would make it legal for internet companies to share all of your private information with the National Security Agency - WITHOUT A WARRANT.
It also prevents companies from making legally binding agreements not to share customer data.
So if Twitter says, "We won't share your data with the NSA." and then you tweet something that the NSA decides it doesn't like, the NSA can go to Twitter and ASK for all of your personal information as well as a record of everything you've EVER tweeted and Twitter can give it to them.
The NSA does not need a warrant and you have no recourse to sue Twitter because they were in violation of the agreement.
Theoretically Twitter could refuse to share the information but we've seen companies like Google cave to government pressure in places like China to protect their profits.
I will be back to blogging tomorrow. Today, I'd like you to spend the next 5 minutes calling your Senator and letting them know that YOU are watching THEM.
sixteen hours with a car full of kids? aaaaa
Posted by: joeinvegas | April 23, 2013 at 12:15 PM
CISPA is a really, really bad idea, on so many fronts.
Thanks for getting the word out.
Posted by: DaddyRunsALot | April 25, 2013 at 09:46 AM