The Senate passed CISA (the Act on sharing information on cyber security) yesterday, a project monitoring law that was packaged as a "cyber security" initiative. The bill is very controversial and has faced strong opposition from defenders of privacy and technology companies because it is an extreme threat to privacy.
The Senate voted in favor of the bill 74 to 21. There were several amendments to CISA, but they were rejected and he went with his "privacy invasive" features included. The project law is similar to what happened in the House, and the next step is for both versions of the bill to be combined.
CISA was presented as a bill on cybersecurity that fight against damaging data breaches by allowing companies to "cybersecurity threat data share with the department of Homeland security, which could then transmit it to other agencies such as the FBI and the NSA."
However CISA laying serious threats to privacy and faced widespread opposition because it gives companies permission (and encouragement) to monitor the information of user and share it with the government without any consequences.
We are alarmed that this bill has passed the Senate overwhelmingly, particularly given.
"The version of the CISA adopted Tuesday, in fact, states that any wider" threat Cybersecurity "the information gathered can be shared" notwithstanding any other provision of law "
This there has already been a lot of anger since the bill passed yesterday afternoon, with many defenders of speech privacy:
"None of this was enough to sway the Senate against the CISA . "You had computer security researchers against the bill, much of Silicon Valley against this bill, defenders of privacy and civil society groups against the bill," says Jaycox the EFF. "Our biggest takeaway is disappointment."
We are also extremely disappointed with the passage of the CISA in the Senate. We will continue to update this post with more information than CISA moves forward
Source :. Wired Magazine
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