Cyberspying bill CISA is up for a vote

Source: ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION

Dear Friend of Digital Freedom,

Privacy advocates, security experts, major tech companies, and even the Department of Homeland Security all agree—the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015(CISA) is a dangerously wrong approach to cybersecurity that must not become law. But time is running out. The Senate took up the bill yesterday and is planning to bring it for an initial vote as early as tomorrow. We need your help to stop it.

CISA is fundamentally flawed because it creates aggressive spying powers for the government and broad immunity clauses for companies. Vague definitions of key terms would leave the new powers the bill grants open to abuse. It’s only your emails, faxes, and phone calls that have stopped this bill from moving forward. But even against cross-partisan, nationwide opposition, supporters of CISA like Senators Dianne Feinstein and Richard Burr are trying to ram this bill through.

With your help, we can stop them. Can you make a call today? CLICK ON LINK: https://act.eff.org/action/tell-the-senate-vote-no-on-the-cybersecurity-information-sharing-act

Public pressure has helped convince companies like Salesforce, reddit, Yelp, Twitter and Apple to oppose the bill. Like us, these companies recognize that CISA wouldn’t have prevented major cyber attacks that endanger the privacy of ordinary people, like the Target or U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) breaches—but it would endanger the privacy and civil liberties of Internet users everywhere. The vote on CISA could happen as early as tomorrow morning. With your help, we’ll make sure Congress gets the message: now more than ever, we don’t need more cyber surveillance. We need better security. CISA must be defeated.

Please pick up the phone and make a call today. With your help, we’ll kill this bill.

Nadia Kayyali
EFF Activism Team
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