Security → CISA: the dirty deal between Google and the NSA that no one is talking about

One of the things that civil liberties activists like to lament about is that the general public seems to care more about Google and Facebook using their personal data to target advertising than the government using it to target drone strikes.

The reality is that both types of abuse are dangerous, and they work hand in hand.

It’s hard to find a more perfect example of this collusion than in a bill that’s headed for a vote soon in the U.S. Senate: the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, or CISA.

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.

»thehill.com/blogs/congre ··· o-one-is

Warrantless, uncontrolled, covert and total surveillance - it's a scary stuff they (BTW, who are they?) are trying to legalize now...Defense industry lobbyists, again and again?..

Let me guess, the CISA bill of course is goning to protect us from terrorists and our children from priests? That's how we should think about it. Right?

And here is one obvious things. Isn't that yet another example of a convergence (or even complete fusion) between our government and big corporations? Where is it going to lead us to? And most importantly, do "We The People" want to be there? I think we better start to take it seriously now or we'll loose what we still have yet (but don't actually cherish now) - freedom. And finally, peruse and think about what do you personally want or need:

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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.

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Yes indeed it does Cartel!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sadly most will not realise it UNTIL ITS TOO LATE!!

Be quiet & start being productive.

there is also a curfew. That is all