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CCIA Concerned About Size and Scope of Hawaii’s Pending Data Retention Bill
1/26/2012
Today the Hawaiian State House debated a newly
introduced piece of legislation, H.B. 2288, which would create a massive
requirement for Hawaiian businesses to gather dossiers about all of their
customers and store them for two years. The bill, a
little shorter than two pages in length, would not just mandate
retention of assigned IP addresses, along with user information like name and
address, but also a log of every single website across the Internet that each
user visits.
Supreme Court Rules Against GPS Monitoring Without A Warrant
1/23/2012
The U.S. Supreme Court said today that installing a GPS
monitoring device constitutes a search and is therefore prohibited by the 4th
amendment without a warrant. The decision that such a search is illegal was
unanimous, but the justices differed in their reasoning.
The majority of the court
ruled 5-4 that placing the geo-tracking device on the car is trespassing on the
car, while the minority wrote that was too narrow a way to decide on this form
of electronic eavesdropping. Justice Sotomayor voted with the majority but also
agreed with the minority’s rational.
The House and Senate have both announced plans today to put off consideration of the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
The announcement follows record numbers of phone calls to Capitol Hill and millions of signatures on online petitions by Internet users after more than 7,000 websites went dark for a day to protest the Internet censorship that SOPA and PIPA would bring. The Computer & Communications Industry Association participated in the SOPA/PIPA website blackout.
Judiciary Committee May Study Cybersecurity Provision Before Implementing It As Part of PIPA
1/12/2012
Senate Judiciary Chairman
Patrick Leahy has put out a statement saying he may add a provision to study
the impact of DNS blocking before that provision within the controversial
PROTECT IP bill (PIPA) would take effect. The offer to suspend the timing of
DNS blocking comes after cybersecurity experts in the Obama administration and
those implementing the latest cybersecurity measure known as DNSSEC have warned
PIPA and the latest cybersecurity measures the government has spent the last
ten years developing are incompatible. Internet engineers and cybersecurity experts have written to Congress
about their serious concerns.
