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Monday, May 14, 2012

''Who needs laws when you can just make an administrative rule?''

From PrivacySOS

''A reader passed on a really interesting link today, demonstrating that the Department of Defense doesn't want to wait for lawmakers to decide whether or not CISPA will fly. Or perhaps the DoD is worried that CISPA -- or something just as bad -- won't pass, and is therefore doing what it can to ensure that it can share our private data with government contractors whenever it wants to?

The proposed rule, "Department of Defense - Defense Industrial Base Voluntary Cyber Security and Information Assurance," will "establish a voluntary cyber security information sharing program between DoD and eligible DIB companies. The program enhances and supplements DIB participants' capabilities to safeguard DoD information that resides on, or transits, DIB unclassified information systems."

Key word there is "transits." It appears as if DoD wants its army of private contractors to be able to share our IP information with the war department.''

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