Congresso dos USA aprova CISAPrivacy advocates were aghast in October when the Senate passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act by a vote of 74 to 21 ...
Lumping CISA in with the omnibus bill further reduces any chance for debate over its surveillance-friendly provisions, or a White House veto
CISA had alarmed the privacy community by giving companies the ability to share cybersecurity information with federal agencies, including the NSA, “notwithstanding any other provision of law.” That means CISA’s information-sharing channel, ostensibly created for responding quickly to hacks and breaches, could also provide a loophole in privacy laws that enabled intelligence and law enforcement surveillance without a warrant.
The latest version of the bill appended to the omnibus legislation seems to exacerbate that problem. It creates the ability for the president to set up “portals” for agencies like the FBI and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, so that companies hand information directly to law enforcement and intelligence agencies instead of to the Department of Homeland Security.
Any “nay” vote in the house—or President Obama’s veto—would also threaten the entire budget of the federal government.
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Ao que parece a CISA vai para aprovação junto com um pacote legislativo que é referente a questões orçamentais, dificultando a sua rejeição e debate.
É algo que deveria ser claramente discutido separadamente.
Ah grandes democracias!!