Anonymous Coward User ID: 70671053 Hong Kong 10/28/2015 06:09 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Senate passes controversial cybersecurity bill Cisa 74 to 21 Senate votes in favor of bill critics including Edward Snowden say will allow the government to collect sensitive personal data uncheckedThe US Senate overwhelmingly passed a controversial cybersecurity bill critics say will allow the government to collect sensitive personal data unchecked, over the objections of civil liberties groups and many of the biggest names in the tech sector. The vote on Tuesday was 74 to 21 in support of the legislation. Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders voted against the bill. None of the Republican presidential candidates (except Lindsey Graham, who voted in favor) were present to cast a vote, including Rand Paul, who has made privacy from surveillance a major plank of his campaign platform. Ahead of the vote a group of university professors specializing in tech law, many from the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy, sent an open letter to the Senate, urging them not to pass the bill. The bill, they wrote, would fatally undermine the Freedom of Information Act (Foia). [ link to www.theguardian.com] Happy? |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 70671053 Hong Kong 10/28/2015 06:16 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Senate passes controversial cybersecurity bill Cisa 74 to 21 muricans don't give a shit, as always. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 70673389 United States 10/28/2015 12:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Senate passes controversial cybersecurity bill Cisa 74 to 21 like they don't collect it already...and haven't since the inception of the internet |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 70414187 United States 10/28/2015 01:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Senate passes controversial cybersecurity bill Cisa 74 to 21 |