[Cieplak]

Supporters include companies like AT&T, Facebook, IBM, Intel, Oracle Corporation, Symantec, Verizon, and Microsoft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Intelligence_Sharing_and_...

I'm envisioning a web dashboard that lets federal agents do fuzzy queries on individuals, to see all the sites visited, emails sent, web searches, browsing habits, etc, from all the IP addresses used by the given individual in the past several years. The system would aggregate information gathered from ISPs and web companies. The government can already get anything they want from an ISP or web company, but they have to do it on a case by case basis and it is probably annoying to correlate information across sources. In the future, I imagine that a federal agent can go to his big brother dashboard, type in a name, and have immediate access to all sorts of information gathered from credit card companies, search providers, ISPs, telecoms.

[rayiner]

That would be scary, if CISPA had anything to do with any of that.

[diminoten]

I find it a great way to tell if a person is worth engaging on this issue based on whether or not they think CISPA involves the government proactively asking for information.

[SoftwareMaven]

I would bet, at least for the NSA and probably the FBI, this already exists. It just isn't quite as real-time as they would like it to be. Instead of the instant fuzzy-search, it's a couple of quick letters, but the oversight seems to be about the same.

[gojomo]

Don't forget an "add person to cyber threat watchlist" button!

It should automatically advise internet services that a person/account may be trouble, thus granting those private companies the blanket "exemption from liability... for decisions made based on cyber threat information identified, obtained, or shared under this [law]." (That's one of the most concerning vague and elastic provisions in the current proposed bill text.)

There should also be a 'redress number' subsystem, for when people on the watchlist start noticing their accounts being restricted or disabled, and want to make the case they're not the bad guy the agent who pressed the button thought they were.

[pdonis]

Are you actually advocating for these, or just trying to point out how extreme the government's powers could be if CISPA were passed?