April 20th, 2009

Congress Ponders Cybersecurity Power Grab

By Timothy Lee, Techdirt

There was a lot of attention paid last week to a new "cybersecurity" bill that would drastically expand the government's power over the Internet...

Perhaps even more troubling, the EFF notes a section that states that the government "shall have access to all relevant data concerning (critical infrastructure) networks without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule, or policy restricting such access."

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