I know you're all probably buried with preparing for Con Law right now, but in case you feel like participating in writing some legislation, there's a collaborative effort going on here to write a statute in response to CISPA. CISPA, if you haven't already read, is the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act that just passed in the House today after having its vote date moved up. It would essentially allow the government to get data about you from private corporations, and potentially spy on your e-mails and personal internet usage. Like a Patriot Act for the web.

The response effort is currently known as the Free Internet Act, and its text is being developed from now until April 29. The legislation essentially aims to protect the cyber civil rights of internet users. The beauty is that anyone can contribute, so if you feel like you want to review the text for cohesiveness, add something to it, take something out, or make any other suggestions, please do. An introduction to the plan is here.

-- KirillLevashov - 27 Apr 2012