OBAMA DECLARES CYBERSECURITY A "NATIONAL EMERGENCY"

BREAKING: Obama Declares “National Emergency,” Signs Massive New Executive Order

President Barack Obama is at it again, and this time he is using his power to gain access into our cyber-identities. Although his new executive order was signed on April 1st, it wasn’t the April Fool’s joke we were hoping for.

Obama recently declared a cybersecurity “national emergency” due to hackers, and bypassed Congress to take executive actions that many say could threaten individual privacy on the Internet.

Obama’s new order is already being criticized, especially by Ben Desjardins, the director of security solutions for Radware.

“The new proposals face significant headwinds, both legislatively from Congress and cooperatively from heavyweights in the tech sector,” Desjardins said.

He added that companies in Silicon Valley are still reeling from the revelations of various government spying programs during the Snowden leaks.

Scott Algeier, executive director of nonprofit organization Information Sharing and Analysis Center, criticized the order’s invasion of privacy and compared the new legislation to a federal takeover of information sharing among people and companies in the private sector.

But the White House argued that the order is simply a framework and that by utilizing it the administration hopes to allow private companies access to otherwise classified cyber-threat information.

The order is supposedly aimed at individuals or companies that present a reasonable suspicion of illegal actions (H/T Benswann.com).

However, government power has a way of expanding on its own. It is probably only a matter of time before Obama uses these new abilities to investigate fellow Americans who would not fit into the above categories on their worst day but who happen to disagree with his unconstitutional policies and power grabs.

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