<div dir="ltr">FYI,<div><br></div><div>Suzanne L. Sager</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">BLOG</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Senate Leaders Rush End-Run on
Personal Privacy</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Apparently, Senate Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman
Richard Burr (R-NC) learned nothing from the overwhelming outpouring of
opposition to the worst of the USA PATRIOT Act earlier this month that led to
passage of the USA FREEDOM Act. They’re
using the Senate Rules to try to ram through –- <i>as early as tomorrow</i> -- frankly awful, privacy-hostile legislation
that’s received no public hearing or Senate floor debate as an amendment to a
Department of Defense funding measure.
The bill, innocuously dubbed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act
(“CISA”), would expose enormous amounts of your personal data to federal,
state, and even local law enforcement … without a warrant! Along with many coalition partners, ALA
strongly opposed CISA in a </span><a href="https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/cisa-2015-sign-on-letter.pdf"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">letter to Senate leaders</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> last March.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Sometimes, you just can’t explain
anything better than a colleague and Gabe Rottman of the ACLU’s Washington
Office rang out an alarm yesterday (with many links to detailed background
information) about this issue and the immediate procedural threat in the Senate
as clear as the Liberty Bell:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">“So, what does the bill . . . do?
It’s a surveillance bill, pure and simple. It says that any and all privacy
laws, including laws requiring a warrant for electronic communications, and
those that protect financial, health or even video rental records, do not apply
when companies share ‘cybersecurity’ information, broadly defined, with the
government.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Please, take a minute to read his
“</span><a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/playing-politics-cybersecurity-and-privacy"><i><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Playing Politics With Cybersecurity and Privacy</span></i></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">” now. Then, take just 60 more seconds to </span><a href="http://cqrcengage.com/ala/home"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">contact your Senators immediately</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> with a simple message: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">“VOTE
NO on the ‘Burr Amendment’ to the defense bill -- or on any such “information
sharing” bill without full public hearings and Senate debate.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">CRAWLER (IN
MOTION, PLEASE)</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">ALERT:
Stop Stealth Move in Senate to Authorize Warrantless Assault on Your Privacy!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">ALERT TEXT</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">We knew when the USA FREEDOM Act
passed earlier this month that there would be much more work to do to “on
offense” to pass more and badly needed surveillance law reforms. Courtesy of a stealth move by the Senate
Majority Leader and Intelligence Committee Chair, however, our first efforts need
to be “on defense” and they need to be NOW. Under cover of a bill claimed to simply permit
internet, phone and other companies to share cybersecurity threat information
with the government, they’re trying to authorize the NSA, CIA, FBI and many others
to share vast amounts of your personal information with law enforcement
agencies at every level of government with way too few controls and too little
oversight. Worse, they’re trying to ram
this invasive bill through the Senate as early as this week without a single
public hearing or real debate as an amendment to unrelated legislation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">STOP THEM NOW! Please, </span><a href="http://cqrcengage.com/ala/home"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">click here
now</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> to tell both of your Senators to
VOTE NO on the ‘Burr Amendment’ to the
defense authorization bill -- or on any information sharing bill without full public
hearings and Senate debate.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">RESPONDER
EMAIL TEXT </span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dear Senator: I care deeply about my personal privacy . . .
and I vote. I also think we need to
protect our communications networks from “cyber” threats. BUT . . . passing a dangerously overbroad
bill like the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, particularly without a
single public hearing or a chance for real debate by the full Senate, is not
the way to balance civil liberties and security. Please, VOTE NO on the ‘Burr Amendment’ to the defense authorization bill -- or on
any “cybersecurity” or “information sharing” bill without full public hearings
and Senate debate. Thank you.</span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Suzanne L. Sager</span><div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Oregon ALA Representative</span><div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Portland State University Library</span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">PO Box 1151</span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Portland, OR 97207-1151</span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Phone: </span><a value="+15037258169" style="color:rgb(0,0,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">503-725-8169</a><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Fax: </span><a value="+15037255799" style="color:rgb(0,0,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">503-725-5799</a><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">email: </span><a href="mailto:sagers@pdx.edu" style="color:rgb(0,0,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank">sagers@pdx.edu</a></div></div></div></div>
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