A coalition of 43 pro-civil liberties groups urged...
A coalition of 43 pro-civil liberties groups urged the Senate to “quickly pass” the revised USA Freedom Act (S-2685) after it returns from recess this week, and simultaneously refuse to take up the Senate Intelligence Committee’s version of the Cybersecurity…
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Information Sharing Act (S-2588). The groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union and New America Foundation, said in a Thursday letter to Senate leaders that the Senate “cannot seriously consider controversial information-sharing legislation such as CISA without first completing the pressing unfinished business of passing meaningful surveillance reform” (http://bit.ly/1AeVMUC). Privacy groups have said privacy protections included in S-2588 aren’t a significant improvement from the more controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (HR-624), which the House passed last year (CD June 26 p8 OR WID June 26 p7). The Senate should make passage of a non-amended S-2685 “a key legislative priority for September,” the privacy groups said. They said the “broad consensus” in support of the bill “would be severely disrupted if any new mandatory data retention requirement were added to the bill.”