Saturday, April 20, 2013

CISPA passes U.S. House: Death of the Fourth Amendment?

Summary: The controversial cybersecurity Bill has passed the U.S. House and is now on its way to the Senate chamber. Privacy groups believe this tramples on the Fourth Amendment.

By Zack Whittaker for Zero Day | April 18, 2013 -- 18:53 GMT (11:53 PDT)

The controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) just passed the U.S. House, and will now head to the upper Senate chamber for further deliberation.

Rinse and repeat. This isn't the first time that this has happened, but it still poses a major threat to Fourth Amendment rights, according to civil liberties campaigners.

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