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"The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) has plenty of people in the tech community worried that it's going to be the next Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). \nThe bill's authors flatly deny the charge, saying it's focused on cybersecurity rather than intellectual property. But some people aren't buying that.\nCISPA would allow the government and private businesses to share cybersecurity information in an effort to better protect networks from cyberattacks. The bill's authors have stressed that their intention is to stop countries such as Russia and China from stealing American businesses' intellectual property \u2014 a phenomenon they say gives those countries an unfair competitive advantage in the global marketplace.\nHowever, organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation and other digital civil liberties groups have warned that the bill's language is too broad. CISPA's language could, they argue, be used as a blunt-force legal instrument in copyright protection or allow the government to snoop on your emails and text messages.\n\nSEE ALSO: Could CISPA Be the Next SOPA?\nMashable readers: Is CISPA the next SOPA-style fight over Internet freedom? Or is it a welcome protection against state-sponsored cyberattacks? Sound off in our poll:\n\n\nAre You Worried About CISPA?\n\nImage courtesy of iStockphoto, PashaIgnatov"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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