2016 Spending Bill Hides New Computer Surveillance Program

House GOP and Democratic leaders just inserted a sweeping surveillance bill into their 2,009-page, late-night 2016 budget deal.

 

The controversial Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act has been given the green light by the White House, even though it was widely opposed by many of the top tech companies last October.

 

The latest version of the controversial was crammed into the spending bill, and it reportedly removes key privacy protections, including a requirement that personal information unrelated to cybersecurity threats be “scrubbed” before it is shared.

 

The closed-door update of the bill inspired Senator Sen. Ron Wyden to tweet, “Latest, worse version of CISA has no real privacy protections & would do little or nothing to prevent major hacks.”

 

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