{"id":10062,"date":"2015-12-18T17:18:38","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T23:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=10062"},"modified":"2015-12-18T17:18:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T23:18:38","slug":"merry-christmas-america-congress-secretly-slips-cisa-into-budget-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/18\/merry-christmas-america-congress-secretly-slips-cisa-into-budget-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas America! Congress secretly Slips CISA into Budget Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10063 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/12\/cisa.jpg\" alt=\"WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 20: U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) (L) talks with one of his staff members during a markup session for the immigration reform legislation now before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill May 20, 2013 in Washington, DC. The Judiciary Committee is hoping to wrap up work on the landmark immigration reform bill this week after wading through the 300 amendments that were filed to the bipartisan bill. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)\" width=\"582\" height=\"401\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Update 12\/18\/2015 12pm: The House and Senate have now passed the omnibus bill, including the new version of CISA.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nPrivacy advocates were aghast in October when the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/10\/cisa-cybersecurity-information-sharing-act-passes-senate-vote-with-privacy-flaws\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act by a vote of 74 to 21<\/a>, leaving intact portions of the law they say make it more amenable to surveillance than actual security. Now, as CISA gets closer to the President\u2019s desk, those privacy critics argue that Congress has quietly stripped out even more of its remaining privacy protections.<\/p>\n<p>In a late-night session of Congress, House Speaker Paul Ryan announced a new version of the \u201comnibus\u201d bill, a massive piece of legislation that deals with much of the federal government\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey took a bad bill, and they made it worse,\u201d says Robyn Greene, policy counsel for the Open Technology Institute.<\/p>\n<p>CISA had alarmed the privacy community by giving companies the ability to share cybersecurity information with federal agencies, including the NSA, \u201cnotwithstanding any other provision of law.\u201d That means CISA\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Remainder at <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/12\/congress-slips-cisa-into-omnibus-bill-thats-sure-to-pass\/?mbid=nl_121815\">WIRED<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Update 12\/18\/2015 12pm: The House and Senate have now passed the omnibus bill, including the new version of CISA. &nbsp; Privacy advocates were aghast in October when the Senate passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act by a vote of 74 to 21, leaving intact portions of the law they say make it more amenable&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2805,2122,74,1317,1814,1189,65],"tags":[3354,3355,3356,3357,3358,1805],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}