Major Internet Security Bill Passes House

Security online has become one of the most pressing topics among many lawmakers. Due to the rapidly increasing number of attacks occurring online there is obviously plenty of reason to do anything and everything to protect the people, and today the House of Representatives made the first big step towards doing that.

The bill that officially passed the House still has plenty of additional revisions and work before it’ll become a law but the fact that is making progress is definitely great news for everyone. Because the bill will likely become a law sometime soon everyone will finally be able to feel safer and more protected online. It might take some time before things become a reality.

While the House has officially approved the bill, it is still unknown whether or not the Senate will approve it. Protecting online privacy and security will definitely be a final outcome of this bill regardless of what happens which is absolutely great news, but whether or not this will become the final law is yet to be seen.

Hopefully in the next 6 months the government will finally have some sort of online protection act, if they do it will bring all sorts of great news to all Americans and will likely bring safety to the entire internet in the form of reduced online attacks and maliciousness. The amazing news is that it will likely be soon and will most likely offer absolutely amazing protection.

Mobile Privacy Increases Coming Soon

Technology has been both a blessing and a problem for a number of years now. As technology became more and more important to everyone’s lives it also became somewhat of a privacy concern and over the past few months it has become increasingly clear just how much of a privacy concern mobile technology poses. The good news is that privacy online and mobile privacy are both soon to become hot items politically so we should see some improvement in a number of areas.

Various states and cities around the United States have already begun pushing for increased privacy regulations which would protect users and as more and more areas begin to push for these rules the movement will simply gain momentum. This is great news because it means the era of advertisers and search engines selling user data will likely be coming to an end. Cell phones currently collect thousands of pieces of information daily and through a variety of sources this information is used by advertisers, under newly proposed privacy laws this would be banned and legally impossible. Obviously the procedures needed to actually enforce this type of law are somewhat complicated and very difficult but if any sort of significant privacy law such as this begins to spread we will likely begin to see a nationwide movement towards increased privacy in nearly every sector of the technology market and that is truly good news for anyone and everyone connected to the internet.

Internet Protests Seem Successful

The SOPA and PIPA bills currently in the works in Congress have millions of internet users scared and concerned about the future of the internet and what could become illegal in the near future. As a result of these bills today was marked as the official day of protest against the bills and multiple major websites took part along with millions of smaller websites.

Overall it seems that the protest was in fact a success in that it helped spread the word to millions of people that were otherwise unaware of the issue entirely. SOPA and PIPA were by far the most popular topics of the past few days and because of this millions of people are now a little bit more educated and involved in the entire process.

The good news about the entire fiasco is that the massive protests seem to have worked well. Obviously the bills in question have not been cancelled or modified at this point but there were dozens of responses today from congressmen and senators all around the country voicing their lack of support for the issues. Assuming all of this actually holds up as we’re hoping this could actually bring an end to both of the bills and once again assure everyone that internet privacy and safety is guaranteed thanks to the lack of government tracking and constant monitoring; this is truly great news for everyone online.

Facebook Agrees to FTC Privacy Ruling

For the past few months Facebook has been under investigation by the FTC regarding a variety of security and privacy concerns which have brought thousands of complaints. Today the case officially came to an end as Facebook agreed to the rules laid out by the FTC in the latest ruling.

Under Facebook’s new agreement there will be consistent privacy audits and more important, users will finally have control of what information is released to whom. This is great news for everyone online as it will more than likely set the long standing precedent regarding user rights and privacy online. No longer will Facebook be allowed to do whatever they please with user data as now users will actually be able to regulate what is private and what is not.

Thousands of Facebook users worldwide have cheered at the result of the FTC ruling because it is the first time that Facebook has finally been forced into following some privacy restrictions. The news has spread fast around the social network and overall the results are very positive as everyone is happy to finally hear that Facebook is going to put an end to Facebook’s less than desirable user privacy rules. No word on when exactly any major changes are coming but for now the millions of Facebook users rejoice for they have finally regained control of their own private data online.