Yesterday we warned that Congress was quietly looking to do two horrible things: (1) strip all pretense from the „cybersecurity“ information sharing bills and turn them into full-on surveillance bills and (2) then shove it into the „must pass“ omnibus bill which is supposed to be about funding the government and nothing more. And… it looks like our warning was almost entirely accurate, as the bill has been released and within its over 2000 pages, it includes CISA and has been stripped of many of the key privacy protections (if you want to find it, it‘s buried on page 1728), while expanding how the information can be shared and used. In part, due to concerns raised yesterday, a few of the absolutely worst ideas didn‘t make it into the final bill, but it‘s still bad (and clearly worse than what had previously been voted on, which was already bad!).

The bill is due for a vote tomorrow and so right now would be the time to call your elected officials and let them know that this is a serious problem.