Sunday, May 12, 2013
Shameful: Tech Companies Fighting Against Necessary CFAA Reform And CISPA Fixes
This makes no sense. Technology companies refuse to correct a dangerous and wide law, due to very specific circumstances that may be covered by other laws. Moreover, it goes against the basic common sense and the opinions of many of these companies own engineers. When companies are so focused on the protection of one of the weapons they are willing to allow these bad laws that remain, these are companies that demonstrate that they are not focused on innovation, but at hearings and judicial protectionism.
Equally worrying is that the new TechNet, an organization that represents a group of high-tech companies sent a letter to the Intelligence Committee of the House to support the release post-marked Cispa. It's not a big surprise. TechNet was classified as a supporter of Cispa and sponsors of bills in Congress overtime (or rather, had their staff overtime) seeking to appease the technology industry in the mistaken belief that the fight against SOPA was actually led by the technology industry, rather than an angry public. The public is Cispa so angry CISPA threats are not obvious to ordinary people, but winning in technology companies, giving them immunity if they violate the privacy of its users is a bad long-term strategy.
In this sense, Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian has launched a campaign to embarrass Google, Facebook and Twitter to come against Cispa. I hope he will do something similar around the CAFA reform too. After reducing technology companies on the wrong side of these laws is a bad long-term strategy for the technology industry.
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