[ALAC] US Introduces New Cyber Security Bill in Senate

Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com
Sat Jan 26 19:29:29 UTC 2013


Dear Jean Jacques,

I wrote an opinion piece on the new US Cyber Security Bills see:

http://www.circleid.com/posts/20130126_pandoras_box_new_us_cyber_security_bills_worm_hole_internet/

I agree with your proposal and support it.

Best Regards,
Sala

On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 2:41 PM, JJS <jjs.global at gmail.com> wrote:

> *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 at 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=7a7124d7-190c-4160-abf3-4012c2db737c
>>
>> To see the Bill, visit:
>>
>> http://commerce.senate.gov/public/?a=Files.Serve&File_id=b678eb9a-b5c1-4540-aca3-3e857c7627da
>>
>> 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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Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro aka Sala
P.O. Box 17862
Suva
Fiji

Twitter: @SalanietaT
Skype:Salanieta.Tamanikaiwaimaro
Tel: +679 3544828
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