Obama Signs CISA Bill into Law
How this happened [1]:<p>In a late-night session of Congress, House Speaker Paul Ryan announced a new version of the “omnibus” bill, a massive piece of legislation that deals with much of the federal government’s funding. It now includes a version of CISA as well. Lumping CISA in with the omnibus bill further reduces any chance for debate over its surveillance-friendly provisions, or a White House veto. And the latest version actually chips away even further at the remaining personal information protections that privacy advocates had fought for in the version of the bill that passed the Senate.<p>Snowden's comment on this:<p>Shameful: @Facebook secretly backing Senate's zombie #CISA surveillance bill while publicly pretending to oppose it. <a href="https://t.co/du7RK7V1WJ" rel="nofollow">https://t.co/du7RK7V1WJ</a>
    — Edward Snowden (@Snowden) October 25, 2015<p>[1] <a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/12/congress-slips-cisa-into-omnibus-bill-thats-sure-to-pass/" rel="nofollow">http://www.wired.com/2015/12/congress-slips-cisa-into-omnibu...</a>