The Senate this week overwhelmingly passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, a surveillance bill that festered in Congress for four years masquerading as security legislation. CISA will succeed in putting a lot more personal information about citizens into the hands of government. Given the feds’ poor track record in safeguarding its own systems, does that knowledge make you feel more secure?
Against the advice of security experts, major tech companies, law professors, civil rights advocates, and consumer groups, U.S. senators voted 74 to 21 in support of CISA. (Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders voted against the bill, while Republican candidates Marc Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Rand Paul were all absent.)
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