CISPA Seems Dead In the US Senate 76
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from The Daily Dot: "A Senate committee aide, who requested to not be named, told the Daily Dot that 'there is no possible plan to bring up CISPA,' in the Senate. The aide cited the fact that the Senate tried to pass its own cybersecurity bill, the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 (CSA). While unsuccessful, it underscored a desire for legislation that took more explicit efforts to protect individuals' Internet privacy. 'There are just too many problems with it,' the aide said of CISPA. This is backed up by U.S. News and World Report, which has reported that a staffer on the Senate's Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation explicitly claims CISPA is no longer a possibility, and senators are 'drafting separate bills' to include some CISPA provisions."
The Senate did something right at last. (Score:5, Informative)
That's all
Re:The Senate did something right at last. (Score:5, Informative)
Actually, they are not very good at that either. They just repealed the law that made it illegal for them to do insider trading. So now the senate are once again the only people in the US legally allowed to do insider trading.
The law repealing it got accepted in record time with no objections.
So, no. Not even when what they SHOULD do is nothing, can thet manage to do the right thing.