While Snowden continues to have information about her espionage activities governmentCongress is preparing to pass a cybersecurity bill that is supposed to stem the tide of hacker breaches at American companies.
Of course she seems to be completely oblivious to the protests about her protection privacy and individual liberties.
On Wednesday the House of Representatives voted (307-116) to pass the Protecting Cyber Networks Act, a bill intended to enable the exchange data for cyber security threats between businesses and government agencies.
This new information exchange system is designed to act as a real-time immune system against hacker attacks, allowing companies to alert each other through the government about the tools and techniques of the attackers.
Proponents of privacy and personal data say the bill threatens to open a new non-return channel to monitor US citizens (and not only). By granting tracking licenses, companies are effectively acquiring legal immunity to share their users' personal data with government agencies including the NSA.
"PCNA will significantly increase the National Security Agency (NSA) access to personal information, and will authorize the federal government to use this information for thousands of other cyber-security purposes," said a document signed by 55 groups. civil liberties and information security experts. Signatory groups include: American Civil Liberties Union, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Freedom of the Press Foundation, Human Rights Watch and many more.
"The revelations over the past two years about the abuses of the secret service community and the supervisors in the field of collecting and using personal information from the Snowden, prove that the government is above the law, especially when the language of the law is not clear. ”[RONA] fails to provide strong privacy or sufficient clarity on how action can be taken, what information can be shared, and how this information can be used by the government. "
Data protection advocates have not resigned and are asking the Obama administration to put a presidential veto, as promised in the Snowden era. There was a new website called StopCyberspying.com that asks the US President to review the PCNA, CISA, or any other bill that threatens to extend surveillance over the Internet.