[...] Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, or CISA, is an out and out surveillance bill masquerading as a cybersecurity bill. It won't stop hackers. Instead, it essentially legalizes all forms of government and corporate spying.
Here's how it works. Companies would be given new authority to monitor their users -- on their own systems as well as those of any other entity -- and then, in order to get immunity from virtually all existing surveillance laws, they would be encouraged to share vaguely defined "cyber threat indicators" with the government. This could be anything from email content, to passwords, IP addresses, or personal information associated with an account. The language of the bill is written to encourage companies to share liberally and include as many personal details as possible.
That information could then be used to further exploit a loophole in surveillance laws that gives the government legal authority for their holy grail -- "upstream" collection of domestic data directly from the cables and switches that make up the Internet.
[...] CISA would create a huge expansion of the "backdoor" search capabilities that the government uses to skirt the 4th Amendment and spy on Internet users without warrants and with virtually no oversight.
All of this information can be passed around the government and handed down to local law enforcement to be used in investigations that have nothing to do with cyber crime, without requiring them to ever pull a warrant. So CISA would give law enforcement a ton of new data with which to prosecute you for virtually any crime while simultaneously protecting the corporations that share the data from prosecution for any crimes possibly related to it.
Will CISA be used against the guilty, or the innocent?
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday July 30 2015, @11:43PM
I just can't WAIT until Harper brings this to Canada.
Now to decide who's the best option to vote for to get Harper out.
Go Liberal, NDP, or vote green again and 'waste' my vote......
If only the Rhino party was still around, lol!
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 3, Touché) by davester666 on Friday July 31 2015, @06:28AM
It probably was in our last budget. I don't think anyone who started reading it when it was published is finished yet.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2015, @07:06AM
The neorhino party is around. They are trying to run a lot of candidates this election due to some kind of anniversary.
I recommend the Pirate Party myself.
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