18.06.2015 - 07:07 [ Mother Jones ]

Congress‘ Fix for Cyberattacks May Hand the Government More of Your Data: „This isn‘t a cybersecurity bill—it‘s a surveillance bill.“

In the wake of huge government data breaches carried out by suspected Chinese hackers—intrusions that may have exposed the records of millions of federal employees—Senate lawmakers are pushing a controversial cybersecurity bill that privacy experts say would do little to stop future breaches but would give the government access to a trove of Americans‘ private information.