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Ahead of Senate Vote, Edward Snowden Speaks Out to Stop CISA Surveillance Bill\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n
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As the U.S. Senate gears up for a vote on the controversial Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) on Tuesday, privacy advocates are galvanizing an 11th-hour push against the bill they say does nothing more than expand government spying powers.<\/p>\n

A slew of digital rights groups including Fight for the Future and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, along with whistleblower Edward Snowden and outspoken CISA opponent Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), joined forces Monday night for an\u00a0Ask Me Anything (AMA) session<\/a>\u00a0on Reddit, which has also come out against the bill. The session was the latest action by civil society groups, activists, and tech companies calling on Congress to reject CISA for its anti-privacy provisions.<\/p>\n

\u201cCISA isn\u2019t a cybersecurity bill,\u201d Snowden wrote during the Q&A. \u201cIt\u2019s not going to stop any attacks. It\u2019s not going to make us any safer. It\u2019s a surveillance bill.\u201d<\/p>\n

Supporters of CISA\u2014including Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Richard Burr (R-N.C.)\u2014say the bill would make it easier for tech companies to share data in cases of security breaches and other digital attacks. But critics say there aren\u2019t enough safeguards in place to protect user privacy and the bill only works to serve intelligence agencies in domestic surveillance operations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat it allows is for the companies you interact with every day\u2014visibly, like Facebook, or invisibly, like AT&T\u2014to indiscriminately share private records about your interactions and activities with the government,\u201d Snowden wrote on Monday. \u201cCISA allows private companies to immediately share a perfect record of your private activities the instant you click a link, log in, make a purchase, and so on\u2014and the government with reward for doing it by granting them a special form of legal immunity for their cooperation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ahead of Senate Vote, Edward Snowden Speaks Out to Stop CISA Surveillance Bill\u00a0 @Snowden \/ Twitter As the U.S. Senate gears up for a vote on the controversial Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) on Tuesday, privacy advocates are galvanizing an 11th-hour push against the bill they say does nothing more than expand government spying powers. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10313,4569,190,249,976,1493,10314,10315,765,8738,1237],"class_list":["post-13901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-cisa-surveillance-bill","tag-cybersecurity-information-sharing-act","tag-data","tag-edward-snowden","tag-electronic-frontier-foundation","tag-facebook","tag-fight-for-the-future","tag-ron-wyden","tag-surveillance","tag-truthdig","tag-us-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13902,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13901\/revisions\/13902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}