Internet Privacy Killing Bills

INTERNET PRIVACY [P CF VHY EN OR KILLING BILLS WE RESIST HOW E ABOUT ПОРЯ NO TO SOPA STOP ACTA SAY NO TO ACTA ANTI-COUNTERFEITING TRADE AGREEMENT AIMS Published APRIL 11 15 April 15, 2011 Multinational treaty to set up standards for enforcing intellectual property rights CRITICISM Detrimental to privacy and freedom of expression Secret negotiations excluded key players and the general public Treaty criminalizes generic medicine RESISTANCE The European Parliament's chief investigator RESIGNED in protest OVER 7,000 people signed a petition against ACTA in the first three days after it was drafted 47,517 people signed a US petition against ACTA Polish websites were Protests were held in OVER 200 European cities SHUT DOWN by denial of service attacks $$$ OUTCOME Signed: OCTOBER 1, 2011 Signed by: AUSTRALIA CANADA JAPAN MOROCCO NEW ZEALAND US EU MEMBER STATES SINGAPORE SOUTH KOREA MEXICO ONLY JAPAN HAD RATIFIED THE TREATY 6 signatories must ratify the treaty for it to come into effect The EU WITHDREW and REJECTED the treaty SAY NO TO SOPA STOP ONLINE PIRACY ACT AIMS OCT 11 26 Extend US law enforcement's ability to combat online copyright infringement Prevent trade with infringing websites Introduced in the House Allow court orders forcing internet service providers to block access to infringing websites October 26, 2011 • Prevent unauthorized streaming CRITICISM Threat to free speech Dangerous precedent for internet censorship Gives law enforcement power over entire domains RESISTANCE INTERNET BLACKOUT on January 18, 2012 162 MILLION 8 MILLION people saw Wikipedia's blackout page people used it to look up contact information for their gov. representative 3.9 MILLION SOPA-related tweets were sent OVER 323,000 photos were blacked out on Flickr Craigslist may have lost $825,000 in revenue by blacking out for the day OpenCongress.org had a record 256,000 views $$$ OUTCOME Bill postponed: JANUARY 20, 2012 SAY NO TO PIPA PREVENTING REAL ONLINE THREATS TO ECONOMIC CREATIUITY HND THEFT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ACT/PROTECT IP ACI AIMS MAY '11 12 Allow copyright holders and US government to prevent access to infringing sites, including outside the US Introduced in the Senate Force ISPS and search engines to remove access on infringing sites May 12, 2011 CRITICISM Threat to free speech and innovation Could harm economic growth by closing down legitimate activities Technological and security concerns about removing websites from the Domain Name System RESISTANCE $$$ OUTCOME Part of the same BLACKOUT as SOPA Bill postponed: JANUARY 2o, 2012 SAY NO TO CISPA CYBER INTELLIGENCE SHARING AND PROTECTION ACI Introduced AIMS in the House Passed in the House • Allow corporations and government to share information about cyber threats NOV '11 30 • Prevent hackers from accessing critical APR '12 systems 26 Failed to pass the Senate CRITICISM Infringes civil liberties Reintroduced in the House FEB 13 Lacks confidentiality and necessary 12 control mechanisms February 12, 2013 RESISTANCE 900 SITES blacked out in April 2013 170,000 people signed a US petition against CISPA 833,000 signed a global petition against CISPA $$$ OUTCOME Passed in the House: APRIL 18, 2013 ETO X The Senate has REFUSED to vote RESIDEN President Obama has THREATENED TO VETO VETO CISPA if it reaches his desk SOURCES HostGator.com Website Hosting en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement marketingland.com/sopa-stats-7-million-petitions-3-9-million-tweets-google-crawling-dropped-60-3815 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_IP_Act marketingland.com/why-the-web-is-going-dark-over-sopa-pipa-3608 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Intelligence_Sharing_and_Protection_Act www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/25/cispa-cyber-bill_n_3158221.html www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-national-security/thank-you-mr-president-big-win-privacy-administration www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2013/04/cispa-protest-carried-out-by-annonymous/ www.zdnet.com/how-to-join-todays-april-22-cispa-protest-7000014320/ DIA