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Sen. Ron Wyden Explains the Fight Ahead Over CISA

Posted by timothy on from the brewing-storm dept.

blottsie writes: Sen. Ron Wyden has led the fight against the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), which the Senate advanced on Thursday in a 84-14 vote. In a new interview with the Daily Dot, Wyden explains why privacy advocates call CISA a "surveillance bill," and discusses why an amendment from Sen. Whitehouse could make CISA more problematic for Internet users' civil liberties.

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  1. the need is already served. Weekly threat reports by raymorris · · Score: 4, Informative

    This also isn't really a case of balancing the pros and cons. The justification is to allow private business to share information about emerging security threats. Just like Alert Logic's existing weekly threat report, which they manage to produce without any legislation or special protections from privacy laws:
    https://www.alertlogic.com/res...

    They also manage to do longer term analysis and share it, without revealing personal information:
    https://www.alertlogic.com/res...

    There are of course many other companies and organizations already compiling and sharing information about emerging threats - no special laws required.