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Tue Oct 27, 2015, 08:40 PM Oct 2015

Senate Rejects All CISA Amendments Designed To Protect Privacy; It's A Surveillance Bill

In case you weren't already convinced that CISA is a surveillance bill masquerading as a cybersecurity bill, today the Senate rejected four separate amendments to the bill that attempted to better protect the privacy of Americans. Senator Wyden had an amendment to require the removal of personal information before information could be shared, which was voted down 55 to 41. Senator Heller had an amendment that was basically a backstop against the Wyden amendment, saying that if the Wyden amendment didn't pass, Homeland Security would be responsible for removing such personal information. That amendment also failed by a 49 to 47 vote. Senator Leahy had an amendment that would have removed FOIA exemptions in the bill (making it much less transparent how CISA was used). That amendment was voted down 59 to 37. Senator Franken then had an amendment that would have "tightened" the definition of cybersecurity threats, so that the shared information needed to be "reasonably likely" to cause damage, as opposed to the current "may" cause damage. And (you guess it, because you're good at this), it was also voted down by a 60 to 35 vote.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151027/11172332650/senate-rejects-all-cisa-amendments-designed-to-protect-privacy-reiterating-that-surveillance-bill.shtml

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Senate Rejects All CISA Amendments Designed To Protect Privacy; It's A Surveillance Bill (Original Post) pscot Oct 2015 OP
Trust me, dissent = terrrorisim is not far behind. OffWithTheirHeads Oct 2015 #1
Perfect, concise headline cprise Oct 2015 #2
K&R Panich52 Nov 2015 #3
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