Obama Signs CISA Bill into Law

In a late-night session of Congress, House Speaker Paul Ryan announced a new version of the “omnibus” bill, a massive piece of legislation that deals with much of the federal government’s funding. It now includes a version of CISA as well. Lumping CISA in with the omnibus bill further reduces any chance for debate over its surveillance-friendly provisions, or a White House veto. And the latest version actually chips away even further at the remaining personal information protections that privacy advocates had fought for in the version of the bill that passed the Senate.

Snowden's comment on this:

Shameful: @Facebook secretly backing Senate's zombie #CISA surveillance bill while publicly pretending to oppose it. https://t.co/du7RK7V1WJ — Edward Snowden (@Snowden) October 25, 2015

[1] http://www.wired.com/2015/12/congress-slips-cisa-into-omnibu...

Re: Obama Signs CISA Bill into Law

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Post by mixedmath » Sat, Dec 19, 2015, 1:24 PM UTC

There have been very many versions of laws similar to CISA that have been proposed, modified, and changed/passed/failed/delayed. When I try to understand exactly what this CISA version includes, most rhetoric I read is alarmist and not conducive to actually knowing what can and cannot be done under CISA.

Is there a digestible explanation of what this CISA entails?

Re: Obama Signs CISA Bill into Law

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Post by x1024 » Sat, Dec 19, 2015, 1:46 PM UTC

Well, this whole Internet thing was nice while it lasted.

Re: Obama Signs CISA Bill into Law

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Post by rplst8 » Sat, Dec 19, 2015, 1:51 PM UTC

The article doesn't mention CISA. If it did, they changed it.

Re: Obama Signs CISA Bill into Law

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Post by snsr » Sat, Dec 19, 2015, 1:53 PM UTC

rplst8 wrote: post #7

The article doesn't mention CISA. If it did, they changed it.

This is the nod, though the CISA provision does the exact opposite of this:

> It strengthens cybersecurity programs

Re: Obama Signs CISA Bill into Law

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Post by sschueller » Sat, Dec 19, 2015, 1:57 PM UTC

How does CISA apply to US companies with subsidiaries in Europe like Microsoft? Will Microsoft now be required to hand over data located in datacenters abroad?

Re: Obama Signs CISA Bill into Law

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Post by zanny » Sat, Dec 19, 2015, 1:59 PM UTC

mixedmath wrote: post #5

There have been very many versions of laws similar to CISA that have been proposed, modified, and changed/passed/failed/delayed. When I try to understand exactly what this CISA version includes, most rhetoric I read is alarmist and not conducive to actually knowing what can and cannot be done under CISA. Is there a digestible explanation of what this CISA entails?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersecurity_Information_Shar...

The core problem is it lets major industry players like MS / Google / Apple give the fed access to all the personal info they record without investigators needing a warrant and with no liability on the companies part (ie, you cannot sue them for state disclosure of your personal info that then resulted in harm against you). It basically means do not be surprised when you are charged with crimes for "private" communications over facetime, hangouts, skype, or with email over hotmail / yahoo / gmail.

If you want slightly more editorialized takes on the terms, while the EFF and ACLU are obviously opinionated in this, I've never heard of them lying:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/zombie-bill-comes-back... https://www.aclu.org/blog/beware-dangers-congress-latest-cyb...