Eugene, Ore.– The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act was passed by Congress on April 18th. The act gives the government access to search through e-mails, text messages, and other sites for any potential cyber threat.
The overwhelming opinion of students on the University of Oregon campus was that CISPA was an invasion of privacy.
Chis Long is a UO student. He believes that monitoring a persons personal messages and Internet use would be okay under certain circumstances.
“I would say that the time that it would be okay would probably be in times when someone had committed a crime, maybe then you would have permission to.”
According to the Los Angeles Times the Senate does not plan to consider the CISPA bill.
“I think it’s dead for now,” Michelle Richardson, legislative counsel with the ACLU, told U.S. News & World Report. “CISPA is too controversial, it’s too expansive, it’s just not the same sort of program contemplated by the Senate last year. We’re pleased to hear the Senate will probably pick up where it left off last year.”
The Obama Administration has echoed similar sentiments so it appears CISPA is not moving forward during this legislative session.
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Christina Kempster, Web Reporter
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