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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. CISA is a "done deal" by turkeydance · · Score: 2

    congress-critters are scared of cyber-spooks, so spooks get what spooks want. similar to -back in the day- Hoover's FBI which had the "dirt" on everyone of national political consequence.

    1. Re:CISA is a "done deal" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      congress-critters are scared of cyber-spooks, so spooks get what spooks want.
      similar to -back in the day- Hoover's FBI which had the "dirt" on everyone of national political consequence.

      How do you know this?

    2. Re:CISA is a "done deal" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      snowden

    3. Re:CISA is a "done deal" by F.Ultra · · Score: 1

      According to rumor Hoovers dirt files where seen as so dangerous that when he died people rushed to get to those files not to use them themselves but to make sure that they where burned.

  2. If they don't get this one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    They will just change the name slightly and try to pass it again.. Soap, Cispa, Crispa, Pisspa, etc..

    This is the Republican way.. then they will take everything they did and try to say that Obama did it, or Democrat -X did what they did..

    Republicans are morons

    1. Re:If they don't get this one by YrWrstNtmr · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Yes, all those suck. Unfortunately, the Democrats are no better. DMCA, COPA, etc.

    2. Re:If they don't get this one by youngone · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Dianne Feinstein is one of the Senators pushing this. Pretty sure she's a Democrat. Not that there's any real difference.

  3. 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.

  4. Good job, Oregon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Never forget that Wyden was the primary reason we are not living with SOPA today. Too bad he is outnumbered by the other senators who are more interested in padding their bank accounts rather than serving the American people.

  5. CISA - Comprehensive Internet Surveilence Act by t0mek · · Score: 2

    To Slashdot editors: the acronym in the summary is wrongly explained!