CISA data-sharing bill passes Senate with no privacy protections

Posted by bob on Oct 28, 2015 11:37 AM EDT
ZDNet; By Zack Whittaker
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A controversial draft law, which one senator called a "surveillance bill by another name," has passed the Senate. CISA, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (S. 754), will allow private companies to share cyber-threat data with the federal government, including personal user data, in an effort to prevent cyberattacks... Companies that share data with federal agencies, including the National Security Agency (NSA), will be given legal and liability protections...

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