Right to Privacy, What Is That? - CISA
The recent developments in the United States Senate seem to have created an opportunity for bitcoin to become the currency of the future. Earlier this week, the senate ended up passing the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act better known in its abbreviated form - CISA. The act will now facilitate information sharing between companies and the US government. The main purpose of CISA is to make it easier for governments to collect personal information of internet users easily and more openly from companies in possession of it. Previously, sharing personal information without consent or....
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If you been ardently following our news updates, then you would have come across an article published last week about CISA and how it is going to impact the privacy of individuals not just in the United States but across the world. FURTHER READING: Right to Privacy, What Is That? - CISA. CISA is going to affect the privacy of most of the internet users across the world because of a simple reason - Most of the email and chat service providers except for a handful are based out of the United States and a majority of the computers and smartphones either run on operating systems created by....
The largest tech companies in the world, from Google and Apple, to Reddit and Twitter, issued statements condemning the cyber-security bill called CISA, but to no avail. CISA (Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015) easily passed through the U.S. Senate’s vote on Tuesday, creating a new avenue for consumer data sharing that benefits anti-privacy entities like the NSA, reports The Guardian. The vote was attended and levied by 95 of the 100 U.S. Senators, as five either abstained or missed the voting process entirely. The five Senators who didn’t vote were Cruz (R-TX), Graham (R-SC),....
Yesterday, the United States Senate passed the highly controversial Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, also known as CISA. CISA is a massive blow against the tech industry as a whole and advocates of privacy. Passing by a 74-21 bipartisan vote, the bill is intended to allow companies to share information on cybersecurity threats with the government.....
According to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), while quantum computers are incapable of breaking public key encryption algorithms, public and private entities need to prepare for future threats against cryptography that is not quantum resistant. Most of today’s digital communications, including cryptocurrencies, leverage public key encryption and CISA believes when “quantum computers reach higher levels of computing power and speed, they will be capable of breaking the public key cryptography algorithms that are in use today.”
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CISA Director Krebs expects to be fired, Reuters reports. Hours earlier, his deputy resigned under pressure.