... Vint Cerf was very concerned about this when I saw him speak a month or so ago at an event at Google's Venice campus.
He said that these people at the ITU are serious about doing whatever they could to gain control or revenue streams off the internet. He said it's a pretty serious threat and he's definitely the kind of guy you pay attention to on issues concerning the web.
Basically this means CISPA can no longer be called a cybersecurity bill at all. The government would be able to search information it collects under CISPA for the purposes of investigating American citizens with complete immunity from all privacy protections as long as they can claim someone committed a "cybersecurity crime". Basically it says the 4th Amendment does not apply online, at all.
No one can say the 4th Amendment doesn't apply online. If this passes the Senate and is signed into law as is then it will surely be challenged in the courts and should be overturned and blatantly unconstitutional.
That said this is completely ridiculous and yet another sign that our govt doesn't work for us at all. Anyone who still believes that is delusional.
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New tech will make this irrelevant
Peer to peer super wifi networks with tie ins to major data centers and we can route around all this bureaucratic crap.
If anything all this exercise will result in is a push towards an even less centralized yet and much higher adoption rates of encryption.
The internet's Dad.....
... Vint Cerf was very concerned about this when I saw him speak a month or so ago at an event at Google's Venice campus.
He said that these people at the ITU are serious about doing whatever they could to gain control or revenue streams off the internet. He said it's a pretty serious threat and he's definitely the kind of guy you pay attention to on issues concerning the web.
This doesn't end the 4th Amendment
No one can say the 4th Amendment doesn't apply online. If this passes the Senate and is signed into law as is then it will surely be challenged in the courts and should be overturned and blatantly unconstitutional.
That said this is completely ridiculous and yet another sign that our govt doesn't work for us at all. Anyone who still believes that is delusional.
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I know reputation management would explode a few years ago and I think eventually it will overtake SEO in revenue generated.
Think about it, only companies need marketing, everyone needs reputation management.
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