The independent 'People's Network' UmeNow.com announced today that it is the ethical alternative for anyone who wants to join a social network centered on defending the right to privacy. "When companies with users in the millions feel free to betray them by agreeing to support surveillance laws like CISPA -- that allow companies to spy on their customers and report what they know to the government, without a proper search warrant or probable cause -- it sends a clear and unambiguous message that the founders and corporate boards of those companies don't give a damn about their customers," stated Evelyn Castillo-Bach, CEO of UmeNow. Mozilla, the not-for-profit organization that uses a community-based approach to develop and provide the Firefox web browser, issued a statement to Forbes citing its objections to CISPA, stating that it has a broad and alarming reach that goes far beyond Internet security. The bill infringes on our privacy, includes vague definitions of cybersecurity, and grants immunities to companies and government that are too broad around information misuse. CISPA would erode existing legal protections and leave the door wide open for companies to hand over sensitive personal information without a subpoena or warrant, with no rights accorded to the individual to sue the company for wrongfully targeting them for interception, and no right to know that one has been intercepted, stated Castillo-Bach, who also blogs within the In the News section of UmeNow. All ads, third party apps and games are banned because they are back doors to tracking and extracting private information.
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