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Submission + - Law Would Put DHS in Charge of IT Security (cio.com)

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CelticWhisper

on Monday February 06, 2012 @09:50PM

CelticWhisper writes: "H.R. 3674, the Promoting and Enhancing Cybersecurity and Information Sharing Effectiveness Act (PRECISE Act), would allow the US Department of Homeland Security to require improved security practices from those businesses managing systems whose disruption could prove detrimental to critical life-sustaining or national-security initiatives."

Submission + - Petition Calls for Making Net Access Inalienable R (whitehouse.gov)

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on Sunday November 20, 2011 @02:56PM

CelticWhisper writes: "Targeted at stopping SOPA, a petition has been started at the White House's "We The People" page calling for a Constitutional amendment that would render internet access an inalienable right. Other countries have already adopted such classification for internet access.

Excerpt from petition text reads: "The United States Government is actively attempting to pass legislation to censor Internet. There are numerous campaigns against this Act, but we need to do more than just prevent SOPA from passing. Otherwise, future Acts of similar nature will oppress our rights."

Is calling for a Constitutional amendment to guarantee this too extreme, or is the Internet sufficiently entrenched in modern life that access to it should be guaranteed by the Constitution?"

Submission + - Arrested for Refusing TSA Search of Children (tennessean.com) 1

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on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @05:20PM

CelticWhisper writes: "A Tennessee mother was arrested for refusing to allow TSA screening clerks to subject her child to a body scan or patdown. This comes in the wake of a promise by the TSA Administrator to make repeated attempts at non-phyiscal screening of children, after which another video of a child patdown surfaced. This event may signify a tipping point in the public's willingness to tolerate invasive and inappropriate security procedures at airports."

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