CISA is the government's way of writing into law that people have no right to privacy in any data held by third party service providers. By granting legal immunity for service providers to share so-called "threat" data—potentially containing unminimized private customer data—law enforcement agencies are opening a huge backdoor for uncontrolled warrantless mass surveillance. Because this surveillance would be done in secret, people would have no legal basis to challenge what amounts to an end-run around the U.S. Constitution.<p>Watch in the coming weeks as lawmakers point to the OPM hacks as justification for spying on everyone's Gmail activity.
Wow, this is a totally uncredited ripoff of some analysis by Stanford Law's Jonathan Mayer. The image is essentially a remake of one he put together. In favor of changing the link.<p><a href="http://webpolicy.org/2015/06/04/nsa-cybersecurity/" rel="nofollow">http://webpolicy.org/2015/06/04/nsa-cybersecurity/</a>
I'm getting tired of finding out about all these ways in which agencies are allowed to use data which circumvent the Constitution. I have to wonder exactly what needs to happen for people to realize this. Then again, you also have to wonder why our own government is surprised people are using encrypted first communication.
NSA/FBI surveillance is pretty unpopular - I'm pretty sure that Senator and Representative offices got a ton of calls about it, otherwise the PATRIOT Act section 215 wouldn't have sunsetted, it would have gotten a big sloppy wet rubber stamp. SOPA touched off a big campaign a couple of years ago, CISA gets nearly unanimous bad reviews.<p>So, why does the Senate keep trying to crank up this sort of thing? They need to be a little answerable to their constituency, they need to exhibit a little leadership in terms of not just blindly following party leadership and lobbyists.<p>Is this whole category of law a place where the DoJ has intercepted enough sketchy conversations that they've got leverage against key Senators and Reps? That's the only thing I can think of, other than the "intelligence community" is flat out lying in the secure sessions. Since the "intelligence community" has a long history of lying, with a lot of recent scandalous reveals, you'd think that oversight committees would be a lot less willing to just believe.<p>So, I'm torn. Why does this keep popping up?
this is why I use tor.<p>Unfortunately many sites do not permit connections from exit nodes. cloudflare always requires one solve a captcha.<p>duckduckgo by contradt provides a hidden service.<p>Im planning on providing one too; I wouldnt want the FBI to know who is reading my articles about c++ memory management.
Just now i read in The Columbian that obama has committed not to spy on the prime minister of france, after france called for an intelligence code of ethics in which the allies agree not to spy on each other.<p>There was no mention of spying on their own citizens.