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CISA Is Now The Law: How Congress Quietly Passed The Second Patriot Act<\/a><\/h3>\n
Back in 2014, civil liberties and privacy advocates were up in arms when the government tried to quietly push through the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, or CISA, a law which would allow federal agencies – including the NSA – to share cybersecurity, and really any information with private corporations “notwithstanding any other provision of law.” The most vocal complaint involved CISA\u2019s information-sharing channel, which was ostensibly created for responding quickly to hacks and breaches,\u00a0and which provided a loophole in privacy laws that enabled intelligence and law enforcement surveillance without a warrant.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Ironically, in its earlier version, CISA had drawn the opposition of tech firms including Apple, Twitter, Reddit, as well as the Business Software Alliance, the Computer and Communications Industry Association and many others including countless politicians and, most amusingly, the White House itself.<\/p>\n

In April, a coalition of 55 civil liberties groups and security experts signed onto an open letter opposing it. In July, the Department of Homeland Security itself warned that the bill could overwhelm the agency with data of \u201cdubious value\u201d at the same time as it \u201csweep[s] away privacy protections.\u201d Most notably, the biggest aggregator of online private content, Facebook, vehemently opposed the legislation however a month ago it was “surprisingly” revealed that Zuckerberg had been quietly on the side of the NSA all along as we reported in “Facebook Caught Secretly Lobbying For Privacy-Destroying “Cyber-Security” Bill.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n

Even Snowden chimed in:<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/span>Edward Snowden<\/span>\u00a0<\/a>\u2714<\/span><\/span>@Snowden<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Shameful: @<\/span>Facebook<\/span><\/a> secretly backing Senate’s zombie #<\/span>CISA<\/span><\/a> surveillance bill while publicly pretending to oppose it. https:\/\/<\/span>boingboing.net\/2015\/10\/24\/petition-facebook-betrayed-us.html\u00a0<\/span>\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

5:43 PM – 25 Oct 2015<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Following the blitz response, the push to pass CISA was tabled following a White House threat to veto similar legislation. Then, quietly, CISA reemerged after the same White House mysteriously flip-flopped, expressed its support for precisely the same bill in August.<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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