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Barack Obama begins a new push for new cybersecurity legislation
Back in December of last year America’s Watchtower made a prediction about the Sony hacking story, here it is:
I would like to take this opportunity to make a prediction: The Obama regime is going to try to take advantage of this crisis using the Hegelian Dialectic as proof that it is time to crack down on the internet and give the government more power over it.
America’s Watchtower also made a prediction that this would be a top priority in Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech. We will have to wait a little while longer before we know if the later prediction comes true or not, but today the former prediction did come true today.
Here is more:
President Barack Obama said Tuesday the cyber attacks against Sony and the Pentagon’s Central Command highlight the need for toughened laws on cybersecurity.
Obama made the comment as the White House unveiled a proposal to revive cybersecurity legislation stalled over the past few years.
“With the Sony attack that took place, with the Twitter account that was hacked by Islamist jihadist sympathizers yesterday, it just goes to show how much more work we need to do — both public and private sector — to strengthen our cybersecurity,” the president said at a meeting with congressional leaders.
And here is more from this article:
Hoping to capitalize on the recent Sony breach, President Obama on Tuesday will unveil proposed legislation that would create a friendlier environment for companies and government to share information about potential cyberthreats and security vulnerabilities.
The proposal, to be officially announced later today by Obama in a speech at the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, hopes to cajole the private sector into participating in information-sharing by offering them liability protection. The plan seeks to assuage privacy concerns by requiring participating companies to comply with a set of restrictions, such as removing “unnecessary personal information,” but a White House fact sheet did not specify what those restrictions would entail.
Needless to say, this news was met with concern by privacy advocates:
But the package is already facing headwinds from privacy advocates, who for years have cautioned that information-sharing legislation could bolster the government’s surveillance powers. Several groups have insisted that no information-sharing bill should be considered before substantial National Security Agency reform.
“The Sony hacks demonstrates a failure of corporate digital security, and not a need for greater government information-sharing,” said Amie Stepanovich, senior policy counsel with Access, a digital-freedom group. “The administration’s attempt to use Sony to justify increased transfer of information to the government is difficult to understand, particularly in the absence of substantive NSA reform, a subject the administration has yet to comment on in the new year.”
And now the Obama regime has the added “bonus” of yesterday’s CENTCOM hacking. While the initial reporting made it sound as if government accounts had been hacked it turned out that some government officials had their personal Twitter accounts hacked so, much like in the case of Sony, it appears as if this is an issue with Twitter security. But of course it will not be portrayed that way.
I expect Republicans to go along with the new measures but even if they do not there is more than one way to skin a cat: the FCC is currently in the process of trying to reclassify the internet in order to give them jurisdiction for the first time and if this happens we know what the end result will eventually be, don’t we?
But have no fear, there are going to be privacy measures implemented in the legislation and we know agencies like the NSA would never data-mine every single American’s phone calls without a warrant and we also know the Obama regime would never use an agency such as the IRS to target his political opponents, right?
Source: http://americaswatchtower.com/2015/01/13/barack-obama-begins-a-new-push-for-new-cybersecurity-legislation/
