Facebook has explained why it supports cispa: a bill that relates to sharing information about internet threats, but according to the critics, to resolving privacy infractions once, and the approach of filesharers can lead.
The proposal for the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act was in november 2011 and where many technology companies have a critical attitude towards the sopa and pipa proposals), support for Microsoft, Oracle, Intel, IBM, and Symantec cispa now. The global criticism of in particular the community led to the beginning of 2012 that sopa and pipa from the table were extracted.
Facebook is one of the companies that were against the two previous proposals at the beginning, but now cispa supports. In a statement let Facebook know that the purpose of the proposal is to make the internet safety to promote. “Several proposals including cispa to make it easier for Facebook and other companies to transfer data with respect to critical threats of the government to obtain. Importantly, the proposal does not create new obligations for data to anyone to share it imposes,” explains Facebook. If Facebook than information about threats to share, there would be the guarantee that the site, the privacy of our clients can continue to protect. The fear of civil liberty organisations point that sites be required personal data of the visitors have to go to share, it would be also unfair.
An analysis of cispa of Lifehacker confirms the opinion of Facebook partly. The proposal would ensure that sites themselves less responsible for what users put online, while sopa that responsibility just increased. The monitoring and regulating of potential cyber threats at a government agency, what internet companies a lot of expense saves. As a visitor to plan for a ddos attack on Facebook put, it is true that authority on to the site with a request for data. Facebook would that data on a voluntary basis can deliver, but don’t have to do this, so it might be from the text.
The objections of civil liberty organisations point is, however, that the text of the cispa was too broad has been drafted and that the wording on meerderde ways to interpret. These ‘cyber-threats’ in the text a reference be made to “theft or misuse of private or government information, intellectual property or identity information,” says the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which suggests that the law is so indeed has a link with the combat of intellectual property infringement. In addition to the EFF among other things, the movement Avaaz, a strong opponent of cispa: an online petition against the proposal has more than 650,000 votes.