A US Senate committee eventually approved the bill CISA (formerly called Cispa, which entitles US agencies to collect your files online without the need for warrants).
The meeting was held behind closed doors last Thursday, and the Senate Intelligence Committee quietly voted through the controversial bill, which facilitates businesses to share their users' information with government agencies, thus avoiding the need for warrants.
Senator Ron Wyden was the only MP to vote against the new bill, saying the measure:
"It does not have adequate means of protecting the privacy of American consumers, and it will have a limited impact on US cyber security."
So despite privacy concerns, the committee passed the bill by allowing US companies to exchange information relevant to security breaches with any government agency.
The law Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) was adopted almost unanimously with 14 positive and 1 negative vote as CNET transmits.
"This bill (CISA) it is critically important to both our organizations that keep the country safe and the companies that own them millions personal information of Americans," said Republican Sen. Richard Burr, chairman of the committee.
The committee passed a similar bill last year with 12 positive votes and 3 negative, but they met deadlock when the supporters of privacy began their reactions.
Of course, the passing of the bill is directly linked by the US government to the increase in cyberattacks against businesses and organizations in the country. Obama has approved $14 billion in the 2016 budget proposal to bolster US efforts against such attacks. Last month, the Obama administration also announced the creation of a new government agency, the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center which it will collect, classify will integrate, which will combine all the information from the different information collection services.
In other words a specialized one centre which will collect information from the services that collect it. It will sort them and redirect them to each interested party. The future of the internet...
