'Cybersecurity act' presentation slideshows

BITS and FSSCC R&D Efforts

BITS and FSSCC R&D Efforts. John Carlson Senior Vice President of BITS Panel on Data Breaches in Payments Systems-- Roles and Best Practices for the Public and Private Sector Response Emerging Retail Payments Risks Conference Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta November 5, 2009. Agenda.

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In late 2011 and early 2012, activists, progressive politicians and Internet companies led in part by Internet freedom advocate Aaron Swartz came together to defeat the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). Advertised as measures against copyright infringement, the bills would have opened any website that contained copyrighted material it was not authorized to publish on any of its pages to a forced shutdown. A site that unknowingly held a copyrighted image in a comment section, for instance, would have been eligible as a violator. Virtually everyone was susceptible to closure.

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