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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Legislative update:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">CISA (S. 754) <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/754" target="_blank">The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015</a> is due
for a vote in the Senate <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">within a few
days</i>.  The American Library Association has joined civil libertarians
and tech companies in opposition to this legislation.  <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">From an ALA press release on Oct. 14^th: <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> “When
librarians oppose a bill with ‘information sharing’ in its name you can be sure
that the bill is decidedly more than advertised. In fact, as Sens. Wyden, Paul
and Sanders have courageously pointed out in opposition to it, the
Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act would dramatically over-share the
personal information of tens of millions of Americans who depend upon library
computer networks, and could function, as a practical matter, as a new
warrantless surveillance tool. ALA calls on all Senators to stand with Mr.
Wyden, Mr. Paul and Mr. Sanders in keeping this privacy-hostile bill from the
Senate floor until it is critically reformed.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">ALA is
concerned that not only will CISA not be effective in thwarting cyberattacks,
but it de facto grants broad new mass data collection powers to many federal,
as well as state and even local government agencies.  Leading security
experts argue that CISA actually won’t do much, if anything, to prevent future
large-scale data breaches such as the federal government has already suffered,
but many worry it could make things worse, by creating incentives for private
companies and the government to widely share huge amounts of Americans’
personally identifiable information that will itself then be vulnerable to
sophisticated hacking attacks.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Oregon Senator Ron Wyden is one of
the primary opponents in Congress to CISA:  <a href="https://medium.com/@RonWyden/this-bill-won-t-protect-you-from-hackers-6aff1d250f67#.toiq6bm5j">“This
bill won’t protect you from hackers...”</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://medium.com/@RonWyden/this-bill-won-t-protect-you-from-hackers-6aff1d250f67#.toiq6bm5j"><br></a> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:
Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt">Tech companies
have lined up in opposition to the bill, according to this Washington Post
article: <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/10/20/apple-says-its-against-a-key-cybersecurity-bill-days-before-a-crucial-vote/" target="_blank">“Apple and Dropbox say they don’t support a key cybersecurity
bill, days before a crucial vote.</a>”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:
Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:
Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt">The Electronic
Frontier Foundation is one of the privacy advocates helping organize opposition
to the bill:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span><a href="https://act.eff.org/action/tell-the-senate-vote-no-on-the-cybersecurity-information-sharing-act">https://act.eff.org/action/tell-the-senate-vote-no-on-the-cybersecurity-information-sharing-act</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:
Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt"><a href="https://act.eff.org/action/tell-the-senate-vote-no-on-the-cybersecurity-information-sharing-act"><br></a></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:
Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt">The
Intellectual Freedom Committee of the Oregon Library Association urges the library
community to engage in this critical debate.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><br></span></span></p>

<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Roberta Richards<br>Faculty Reference Librarian<br>971-722-4962<br><a href="mailto:rrichard@pcc.edu" target="_blank">rrichard@pcc.edu</a><br>Southeast Library Research Desk:  971-722-6289<br><br><br></div><br><div><br><br></div></div></div>
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