*Dear Salanieta,* * * *thank you for bringing this to our attention. It will be worth following.* * * *This draft bill comes on the heels of SOPA and other proposed legislation which, under the guise of protecting citizens, businesses and states, would allow public authority to curtail civic and individual rights, without adequate protection for the Internet user, under the convenient assumption that what is good for a sovereign state is of necessity good for its citizens.* * * *It is in this context, and in the face of this growing threat, that I proposed, during an ALAC monthly meeting, that we take up the subject of existing and foreseeable infringements on civic and individual rights, such as the expanding practice of DPI without proper parliamentary oversight (and this is done not only in states governed by a single political party without representative democracy).* * * *Best regards,* *Jean-Jacques.* 2013/1/26 Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro < salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com>
Dear All,
The US Senate has introduced a new Cybersecurity Bill through Senators John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV, Chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, Tom Carper, incoming Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Dianne Feinstein, Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence where they made a Press Release, see:
http://commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=PressReleases&ContentRecord_id...
To see the Bill, visit:
http://commerce.senate.gov/public/?a=Files.Serve&File_id=b678eb9a-b5c1-4540-...
This is interesting and relevant as far as it pertains to critical information infrastructure that the US considers to be part of the US Infrastructure. Whilst the models point to public private collaboration which makes sense because it is the private sector that controls much of the infrastructure anyway except in situations where if there were a State of Emergency and the rights to control/access infrastructure by the State and it has its challenges.
This Bill affects ICANN's operations as well hence the relevance.
Kind Regards,
-- Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro aka Sala P.O. Box 17862 Suva Fiji
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