{"id":7030,"date":"2015-04-02T05:47:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T10:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7030"},"modified":"2015-04-02T05:47:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T10:47:09","slug":"how-big-business-is-helping-expand-nsa-surveillance-snowden-be-damned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7030","title":{"rendered":"HOW BIG BUSINESS IS HELPING EXPAND NSA SURVEILLANCE, SNOWDEN BE DAMNED"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/firstlook.org\/theintercept\/2015\/04\/01\/nsa-corporate-america-push-broad-cyber-surveillance-legislation\/\" target=\"_blank\">HOW BIG BUSINESS IS HELPING EXPAND NSA SURVEILLANCE, SNOWDEN BE DAMNED<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Since November 11, 2011, with the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d112:h.r.03523:\">introduction<\/a>\u00a0of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, American spy agencies have been pushing laws to encourage corporations to share more customer information. They repeatedly failed, thanks in part to NSA contractor Edward Snowden\u2019s revelations of mass government surveillance. Then came Republican victories in last year\u2019s midterm Congressional elections and a major push by corporate interests in favor of the legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the bill is back, largely unchanged, and if congressional insiders and the bill\u2019s sponsors are to believed, the legislation could\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/tech\/here-s-what-is-in-the-senate-s-cybersecurity-bill-20150318\">end up<\/a>\u00a0on President Obama\u2019s desk as soon as this month. In another boon to the legislation, Obama is expected to reverse his past opposition and sign it, albeit in an amended and renamed form (CISPA is now CISA, the \u201cCybersecurity Information Sharing Act\u201d). The reversal comes in the wake of high-profile hacks on JPMorgan Chase and Sony Pictures Entertainment. The bill has also benefitted greatly from lobbying by big business, which sees it as a way to cut costs and to shift some anti-hacking defenses onto the government.<\/p>\n<p>For all its appeal to corporations, CISA represents a major new privacy threat to individual citizens. It lays the groundwork for corporations to feed massive amounts of communications to private consortiums and the federal government, a scale\u00a0of\u00a0cooperation even greater\u00a0than that revealed by Snowden. The law\u00a0also breaks new ground in suppressing pushback against privacy invasions; in exchange for channeling data to the government, businesses are granted broad legal immunity from privacy lawsuits \u2014 potentially leaving consumers without protection if companies break privacy promises that would otherwise keep information out of the hands of authorities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOW BIG BUSINESS IS HELPING EXPAND NSA SURVEILLANCE, SNOWDEN BE DAMNED Since November 11, 2011, with the\u00a0introduction\u00a0of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, American spy agencies have been pushing laws to encourage corporations to share more customer information. They repeatedly failed, thanks in part to NSA contractor Edward Snowden\u2019s revelations of mass government surveillance. 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