What is CISPA? Should you be worried?

After SOPA and PIPA, a new U.S. government project will may start that will “destroy” our private online life. This project is called CISPA. But, what CISPA means? And what exactly does? Read the rest of the article to find out.

Let's start with the meaning of the word CISPA. CISPA stands for Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. Now let's take a look what this project will do. It makes companies (who support this project), to gather all the information about you and share it with the government. All your info will be sent to the national security agency for security reasons. Companies will be able to monitor everything the user does on their network and share it with the government. Anything private the user does, companies can report what they claim to be a "Cyber-threat". Your question will now be, "What is a cyber threat"? It's anything that makes the effort to disrupt or destroy networks or make threats to things owned by the government or privet companies. Something that shocked me is, that some companies and networks, that fought back with all Internet users against SOPA and PIPA, are now supporting it.

Those companies are:

1.) AT&T

2.) Verizon

3.) FaceBook

4.) Intel

5.) IBM

6.) Microsoft

From my perspective of things, I definitely don't see this happening, due to of course, the user’s privacy on the Internet.

I personally don't support that idea, because I don't want anyone except from me, to have access to my private information.

For more details on this topic please watch my friend's Malik YouTube video based on it.

Malik's channel: iGeekTVplus

Thank you for reading, I hope my article and Malik's video helped you out to understand what CISPA is, and if you should be worried or not. If you want anything to add or ask based on this article, feel free to leave it in the comment section below or mention me on Twitter @OrestGPap.

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