[Misc][R:X-Post] CISA could hit Senate floor today (Tuesday), maybe this week EDIT10: Video from Reddit's sticky: "#StopCISA: What you need to know about #CISA" Voat, please let me edit this post. EDIT9: Voat doesn't let me edit the post, see the comments! "Senate passes CISA, strikes down four pro-privacy amendments" (RT) Tweet from FftF, (archive): This is not over. #CISA still has to go through a conference committee. We won't stop fighting. Join us: http://www.decidethefuture.org/  #StopCISA EFF Live, (archive): BREAKING: Cyberspying bill CISA passes Senate by a vote of 74-21. Next, it goes to a conference committee between the House and Senate. FftF, (archive): If President Obama does not veto this bill, he’ll be showing that his administration never truly cared about the open Internet. #StopCISA "Senate Passes Cyber Bill Despite Privacy Fears" (National Journal) IBM, one of the busi­nesses who lob­bied in fa­vor of the bill, cel­eb­rated its pas­sage. “Today’s vote is a big win for both se­cur­ity and pri­vacy,” said Timothy Shee­hy, the com­pany’s vice pres­id­ent for tech­no­logy policy af­fairs. “Shar­ing tech­nic­al de­tails on the latest di­git­al threats is crit­ic­al to strength­en­ing Amer­ica’s cy­ber de­fenses.” Those bastards. “To avoid a veto, whatever emerges from the con­fer­ence com­mit­tee must be a bill that meets Pres­id­ent Obama’s pre­vi­ous stand­ards,” said Nath­an White, seni­or le­gis­lat­ive man­ager at Ac­cess, a di­git­al hu­man-rights or­gan­iz­a­tion. “The ad­min­is­tra­tion’s policy up to this point has been very clear—it has sup­por­ted CISA’s pro­cess but ex­pressed con­cerns that it is cur­rently ‘dan­ger­ous to cy­ber­se­cur­ity.’” “Today’s vote is a dis­ap­point­ment,” White ad­ded. “But it is not the end of the road.” EDIT8: Fight for the Future, ~an hour ago, (archive). The Senate is discussing CISA right now — take action to stop it. Retweet this. Then call Congress: 1-985-222-CISA.  Them again, (archive) This is what a broken political system looks like. #StopCISA Not agreed to 41-55: Wyden amendment #2621 (personal information removal) in relation to S. 754, the cybersecurity bill. And important, (archive) Senate has voted down ALL the pro-privacy amendments to #CISA, because this is not a cybersecurity bill, it's a surveillance bill. #StopCISA EDIT9: "Senate kills privacy advocates' bid to change cyber bill" (The Hill), (archive). EDIT7: There is a thread in Reddit IAmA (older archive, newer) where Activists from Access, Fight for the Future, EFF, Demand Progress and even Senator Wyden answer questions. EDIT6:  This information is from Fight for the Future, look at the first reply in this archive of the Reddit thread: https://www.youbetrayedus.org/facebook/ We've gotten information that Facebook is secretly lobbying for a dirty bill called “CISA” that would give them impunity for violating their users’ privacy—as long as they hand over user data to the government. Most tech companies are against it for privacy reasons, but apparently Facebook is working behind the scenes to make sure it passes. Situation is really bad, people are pushing for it hard. DHS has warned in the past that the bill sweep away important privacy protections, but now they are supporting it: DHS Deputy Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Oct. 22 that partnering with industry on cybersecurity is crucial, and CISA would lubricate the lines of communication between government and the private sector. (yes, the same one). DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson also endorsed the bill in an Oct. 22 statement. CISA might have final vote on Tuesday: On Tuesday, senators will bring two batches of votes that, if all goes as scheduled, would put a final vote in the afternoon, under a unanimous consent agreement advanced Thursday by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, reports Morning Cybersecurity’s Tim Starks. Right now, it looks like CISA is likely to pass, Tim reports. Privacy groups have called CISA a “sinking ship,” and there has indeed been a tech industry pile-on to fuel that perception. Cotton’s FBI amendment could still disrupt the chances of passage, but it’s probably more an outside chance than a strong one. On the other side, the bulk of industry is united and strongly pushing the legislation, as is the Obama administration, which again signaled its support Thursday night with a Statement of Administration Policy. EDIT5: I should point out that it moves really fast and odds are not in our favour - people basically have to act to prevent it. Article (Techdirt), (archive). Yes, one bad amendment has been pulled from consideration (Techdirt) (archive), but that doesn't make this bill tolerable or mean that it won't return! Fight for the Future is already starting protests (archive), call now: http://www.decidethefuture.org https://stopcyberspying.com Here is a nice article about the recent resistance of the companies to CISA (Computerworld), (archive) Editing that here, because this post is still on the front page. EDIT6: Sen. Ron Wyden isn't giving up the fight against CISA (Daily Dot) EDIT3: Debates are over for today, but the ball is rolling - refer to this comment for details. Please contact your senators about this and refer to the "What to do" section. They want to pass the bill rather quickly. EDIT4: EFF has tweeted this one: https://act.eff.org/action/tell-the-senate-vote-no-on-the-cybersecurity-information-sharing-act EDIT2: (twit, (archive)) #CISA debate has begun in the Senate. Watch here: http://www.c-span.org/video/?328811-2/us-senate-debate-sanctuary-cities-bill&live … ...and take action here: http://decidethefuture.org/  It might be brought up this afternoon, according to the tweet from Fight for the Future, (archive): ALERT: Sponsors of #CISA claim it will hit Senate floor this afternoon. Retweet this now! http://DecideTheFuture.org The Hill article, (archive). But according to multiple people with knowledge of the negotiations, Senate Republican leaders may bring up the measure as early as Tuesday, after wrapping discussion on an immigration bill. Privacy-minded groups have fought back, arguing CISA would merely shuttle more of Americans’ personal data to law enforcement and intelligence agencies without actually strengthening cyber defenses. Politico article, (archive) when the Senate actually took up the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act only to set it aside – word is that today might be the day when CISA finally returns to the floor What to do: http://www.decidethefuture.org EDIT4: Call them! https://act.eff.org/action/tell-the-senate-vote-no-on-the-cybersecurity-information-sharing-act https://stopcyberspying.com https://act.eff.org/action/stop-the-cyber-bills https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-cfaa-is-broken-don-t-make-it-worse https://www.youbetrayedus.org/hillary/ https://www.faxbigbrother.com EDIT: This one belongs here too: https://www.youbetrayedus.org/tmobile/ Previous, older threads with more info if someone needs it: [1], [2] P.S. Just because we are here, check this out - while not CISA-related, it's about a petition for strong security: https://www.savecrypto.org This is relevant to GamerGate because it affects a huge part of #GG participants and concerns their rights to privacy/anonymity.