Cyber-Security Enhancements
The Homeland Security bill that the Senate will vote on today includes a few ominous sounding "cyber-security enhancements."
Among other things, the legislation "gives U.S. authorities new power to trace e-mails and other Internet traffic during cyber-attacks without first obtaining even perfunctory court approval," and would provide legal protections to ISPs to reveal information about their subscribers to the government during computer emergencies.
Will these provisions even be debated as the 484 page bill is rushed to a vote in this lame duck session of the "world's greatest deliberative body?"
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