Wednesday, 22 September 2015, WASHINGTON, D.C. - The House of Representatives today with virtually no public scrutiny but significant "intelligence" community excitement is expected to rush through with widespread congressional support and no debate (much like the disastrously unconstitutional Patriot Act) a so-called "cybersecurity" corporate immunity bill introduced by its "engineer" former C.I.A. Texas freshman Republian congressman Will Hurd along with fellow Texas freshman Republican congressman John Heath which bill grants businesses dangerously broad liability protections granting corporate immunity for sharing unlimited cyberdata with other businesses as well as corporate immunity for launching private "counterattacks" which may threaten any consumer's (i.e., the People's) personal private computers and mobile devices including phones if the business "suspects" itself to be the target of hackattacks.
Information further will be shared with a "civilian agency" The New York Times assures readers which actually as detailed in the Sunday, 19 April 2015 Internet "Militarizaton" post here is the rather sinister-sounding "obscure" National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center which information first will have been double "scurbbed" once by the company and once by the above "civilian" government agency of Americans' personal information before passing it on to the NSA and the Department of Defense presumably through the Air Force Cyber Security Command and then eventually any other government agency that claims some need for it although such information alone can not be the grounds for some government enforcement action presumably should some personal privacy consumer information "leak through.
(In an admitted aside The Ninth Amendment notes that the American people have come to be known principally as "consumers" rather than "citizens" or "We The People" in the extremely limited but most powerful corporate conception of the paramount purpose of civilization as a monetary profit endeavor when as here the dwindling protections of our fundamental rights are once again under attack from State and corporate encroachments on our civil liberties. The Ninth Amendment editorial board suggests this is yet another example of the "corporate creep" which not only has bought and/or is buying the State but deeply infiltrating and dominating the very terms at the foundations of its discourse with intended pre-ordained dangerously misdirected disastrous consequences.)
The White House has abandoned earlier serious privacy and other constitutional concerns as raised by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and many other civil liberties groups. Meanwhile the federal government exploits its recent attempts to fan Americans' hysteria over isolated incidents and conveniently timed dire warnings implicating cybersecurity threats which largely are not even understood technically up to and including "cyberjihadists" although it is unclear why such an individual or group would want to target for example consumer credit card information rather than the United States infrastructure presumably hopefully already a focus of all available cybersecurity safeguards.
At the time the bill recently was in a day rushed through the House Homeland Security Committee Republican chairman Michael McCaul another Texan allegedly the "chief architect" of the bill while "working with the White House" found it necessary to inform committee members immediately before voting that "American companies are under siege" and threw in that President Obama's White House "unclassified but sensitive" unpublished schedule had been acquired (Anyone can sign up or daily White House emails providing the President's "published" schedule although it is unclear what this had to do with granting widespread potentially blanket immunity from prosecution to companies for violating Americans privacy or "counterattacking" their cyberdevices.
In a shockingly sympathetic virtually cheerleading "cbersecurity" bill article reporting that only some Senate timing issues may slow up immediate passage of the bill The New York Times article linked to below further asserts that "White House passage of the Bill is not in question". (And The Ninth Amendment believed it already had staked out "All The News Before It Even Happens".) The White House which last Congressional term "mustered strong opposition" to the House bill because "it would jeopardize the privacy rights" of consumers has caved completely to continuing intense "intelligence" community and Department of Defense pressure eager to get their hands on the data. Reportedly a House Intelligence Committee Republican aide said that "the President has come our way". Unbelievably yesterday's last comments on the bill from the White House focused exclusively on concerns that business liability immunities were so broad as to potentially "backfire" on businesses afraid presumably for their own privacy about reporting "cyberthreats" as well as launching immunized corporate cyberattacks to "punish" competitors.
Even in abandoning all real concerns about the rights of the People including to their already vastly unconstitutionally State invaded privacy rights and other civil liberties at least the Obama White House instead now has expressed its "deep concern" about threats posed by the proposed corporate Internet "militarization" bill to the privacy concerns of corporations now potentially free to go to cyberwar with one another as well as the American people. Readers interested in more information about the above can go to The New York Times link below. Readers interested in a significantly more in-depth analysis of the bill and its origins may can go if not previously to the Sunday, 19 April 2015 post here on "Internet Militarization" and/or directly to the to The San Antonio Express-News article at the second linked to below which as previously noted is not accessible in its entirety to non-subscribers to that publication unless they subscribe at least to a free two week digital subscription which by no means is meant as a promotion or endorsement of that publication here.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/23/us/politics/computer-attacks-spur-congress-to-act-on-cybersecurity-bill-years-in-making.html?_r=0
http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Cybersecurity-bill-could-let-companies-trade-info-6208429.php
Copyright 2015 Martin P. All World Rights Expressly Reserved
Information further will be shared with a "civilian agency" The New York Times assures readers which actually as detailed in the Sunday, 19 April 2015 Internet "Militarizaton" post here is the rather sinister-sounding "obscure" National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center which information first will have been double "scurbbed" once by the company and once by the above "civilian" government agency of Americans' personal information before passing it on to the NSA and the Department of Defense presumably through the Air Force Cyber Security Command and then eventually any other government agency that claims some need for it although such information alone can not be the grounds for some government enforcement action presumably should some personal privacy consumer information "leak through.
(In an admitted aside The Ninth Amendment notes that the American people have come to be known principally as "consumers" rather than "citizens" or "We The People" in the extremely limited but most powerful corporate conception of the paramount purpose of civilization as a monetary profit endeavor when as here the dwindling protections of our fundamental rights are once again under attack from State and corporate encroachments on our civil liberties. The Ninth Amendment editorial board suggests this is yet another example of the "corporate creep" which not only has bought and/or is buying the State but deeply infiltrating and dominating the very terms at the foundations of its discourse with intended pre-ordained dangerously misdirected disastrous consequences.)
The White House has abandoned earlier serious privacy and other constitutional concerns as raised by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and many other civil liberties groups. Meanwhile the federal government exploits its recent attempts to fan Americans' hysteria over isolated incidents and conveniently timed dire warnings implicating cybersecurity threats which largely are not even understood technically up to and including "cyberjihadists" although it is unclear why such an individual or group would want to target for example consumer credit card information rather than the United States infrastructure presumably hopefully already a focus of all available cybersecurity safeguards.
At the time the bill recently was in a day rushed through the House Homeland Security Committee Republican chairman Michael McCaul another Texan allegedly the "chief architect" of the bill while "working with the White House" found it necessary to inform committee members immediately before voting that "American companies are under siege" and threw in that President Obama's White House "unclassified but sensitive" unpublished schedule had been acquired (Anyone can sign up or daily White House emails providing the President's "published" schedule although it is unclear what this had to do with granting widespread potentially blanket immunity from prosecution to companies for violating Americans privacy or "counterattacking" their cyberdevices.
In a shockingly sympathetic virtually cheerleading "cbersecurity" bill article reporting that only some Senate timing issues may slow up immediate passage of the bill The New York Times article linked to below further asserts that "White House passage of the Bill is not in question". (And The Ninth Amendment believed it already had staked out "All The News Before It Even Happens".) The White House which last Congressional term "mustered strong opposition" to the House bill because "it would jeopardize the privacy rights" of consumers has caved completely to continuing intense "intelligence" community and Department of Defense pressure eager to get their hands on the data. Reportedly a House Intelligence Committee Republican aide said that "the President has come our way". Unbelievably yesterday's last comments on the bill from the White House focused exclusively on concerns that business liability immunities were so broad as to potentially "backfire" on businesses afraid presumably for their own privacy about reporting "cyberthreats" as well as launching immunized corporate cyberattacks to "punish" competitors.
Even in abandoning all real concerns about the rights of the People including to their already vastly unconstitutionally State invaded privacy rights and other civil liberties at least the Obama White House instead now has expressed its "deep concern" about threats posed by the proposed corporate Internet "militarization" bill to the privacy concerns of corporations now potentially free to go to cyberwar with one another as well as the American people. Readers interested in more information about the above can go to The New York Times link below. Readers interested in a significantly more in-depth analysis of the bill and its origins may can go if not previously to the Sunday, 19 April 2015 post here on "Internet Militarization" and/or directly to the to The San Antonio Express-News article at the second linked to below which as previously noted is not accessible in its entirety to non-subscribers to that publication unless they subscribe at least to a free two week digital subscription which by no means is meant as a promotion or endorsement of that publication here.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/23/us/politics/computer-attacks-spur-congress-to-act-on-cybersecurity-bill-years-in-making.html?_r=0
http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Cybersecurity-bill-could-let-companies-trade-info-6208429.php
Copyright 2015 Martin P. All World Rights Expressly Reserved
