<div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.districtdispatch.org/2015/12/almost-but-not-too-late-to-tell-speakerryan-to-stopcisa/">http://www.districtdispatch.org/2015/12/almost-but-not-too-late-to-tell-speakerryan-to-stopcisa/</a><br><br><h1 class="" itemprop="itemReviewed" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Thing" style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;font-weight:normal;font-family:BebasNeueRegular,arial,Georgia,serif;font-size:28px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span itemprop="name" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none">Almost, but not too, late to tell @SpeakerRyan to #StopCISA</span></h1><p class="" style="padding:0px 0px 5px;margin:7px 0px 10px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-style:none none solid;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(242,242,242);color:rgb(170,170,170);font-size:11.05px;font-family:"Droid Sans",Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="padding:0px;margin:0px 10px 0px 0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;display:inline-block">Posted by:<span class=""> </span><a href="http://www.districtdispatch.org/author/adameisgrau/" title="" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;color:rgb(170,170,170);text-decoration:none">Adam Eisgrau</a></span><span class=""> </span><span style="padding:0px;margin:0px 10px 0px 0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;display:inline-block">December 16, 2015</span>        <span style="padding:0px;margin:0px 10px 0px 0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;display:inline-block">in<span class=""> </span><a href="http://www.districtdispatch.org/category/cybersecurity/" rel="category tag" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;color:rgb(170,170,170);text-decoration:none">Cybersecurity</a>,<span class=""> </span><a href="http://www.districtdispatch.org/category/legislation/" rel="category tag" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;color:rgb(170,170,170);text-decoration:none">Legislation</a>,<span class=""> </span><a href="http://www.districtdispatch.org/category/privacy-surveillance/" rel="category tag" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;color:rgb(170,170,170);text-decoration:none">Privacy & Surveillance</a></span></p><div class="" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Droid Sans",Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><p style="padding:1em 0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none">Loyal District Dispatch readers know that, literally for years, ALA and<span class=""> </span><a href="https://static.newamerica.org/attachments/4459-pr-massive-coalition-of-security-experts-companies-and-civil-society-groups-urge-obama-to-veto-cisa/Final_Coalition%20Ltr%20Urging%20Pres.%20to%20Veto%20CISA.8b33e2d86dc14780b35c9cde44a41797.pdf" target="_blank" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;color:rgb(77,132,179);text-decoration:underline">a strong coalition</a><span class=""> </span>of groups and companies from across the political spectrum have been fighting privacy-unfriendly “cybersecurity,” aka “information” sharing, legislation most recently unveiled as the<span class=""> </span><a href="https://static.newamerica.org/attachments/4459-pr-massive-coalition-of-security-experts-companies-and-civil-society-groups-urge-obama-to-veto-cisa/Final_Coalition%20Ltr%20Urging%20Pres.%20to%20Veto%20CISA.8b33e2d86dc14780b35c9cde44a41797.pdf" target="_blank" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;color:rgb(77,132,179);text-decoration:underline">Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act</a><span class=""> </span>(S. 754). CISA was meant merely to incentivize companies like internet service providers to share hints of “cyber-threats” with the government by shielding them from liability for doing so.  The bill has been consistently and rightly criticized, however, for seriously compromising all of our personal privacy and for creating de facto new surveillance programs for the NSA and FBI.</p><p style="padding:1em 0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none">(Already heard enough?<a href="http://cqrcengage.com/ala/home" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;color:rgb(77,132,179);text-decoration:underline"><span class=""> </span>Click here to take action</a>.)</p><div id="attachment_14999" class="" style="padding:4px;margin:0px 0px 20px 20px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;float:right;line-height:18px;text-align:center;max-width:100%;width:310px;background:rgb(241,241,241) none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><a href="http://www.districtdispatch.org/clock-at-midnight-3/" rel="attachment wp-att-14999" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;color:rgb(77,132,179);text-decoration:underline"><img class="" src="http://www.districtdispatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/bigstock-Clock-At-Midnight-359599-300x200.jpg" alt="clock showing almost midnight" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: medium none; list-style: outside none none; border: 0px none; max-width: 100%; height: auto;" height="200" width="300"></a><p class="" style="padding:0px;margin:5px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;color:rgb(136,136,136)">clock showing almost midnight</p></div><p style="padding:1em 0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none"><a href="http://www.districtdispatch.org/2015/10/senate-passes-cisa-negotiations-with-house-next/" target="_blank" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;color:rgb(77,132,179);text-decoration:underline">Until very recently</a>, those serious defects and strong grassroots efforts by ALA and many others kept CISA and its legislative predecessors from passing.  In recent weeks, however, the Chairs of the powerful House and Senate Committees on Intelligence and Homeland Security secretly negotiated a compromise version of their several “information sharing” bills that the White House signaled it could approve if passed.</p><p style="padding:1em 0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none">Late last night, that language — now<span class=""> </span><a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151215/06470133083/congress-drops-all-pretense-quietly-turns-cisa-into-full-surveillance-bill.shtml" target="_blank" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;color:rgb(77,132,179);text-decoration:underline">as bad or worse than it’s ever been</a>  from a privacy perspective – was slipped as a “rider” by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan into the<span class=""> </span><a href="http://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20151214/CPRT-114-HPRT-RU00-SAHR2029-AMNT1final.pdf" target="_blank" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;color:rgb(77,132,179);text-decoration:underline">2000+ page “omnibus” spending bill</a><span class=""> </span>that Congress must pass to avoid a government shutdown.  A vote on the omnibus is slated to take place Thursday just before Congress leaves town for the holidays.</p><p style="padding:1em 0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none">Librarians and other civil liberties organizations may lose this fight, but we needn’t and shouldn’t go quietly!<span class=""> </span><a href="http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2015/12/ala-president-urges-congress-reject-controversial-cybersecurity-rider-0" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;color:rgb(77,132,179);text-decoration:underline">Join ALA President Sari Feldman in protesting this undemocratic deal</a>.</p><p style="padding:1em 0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none">The odds are long and time is tight, so tweets and emails are sweet.  Please,<span class=""> </span><a href="http://cqrcengage.com/ala/home" target="_blank" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;color:rgb(77,132,179);text-decoration:underline"><strong style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none">click here</strong></a>  to send one to your Member of Congress.  It’s already set to ask him or her to tell Speaker Ryan that middle-of-the-night deals that give the NSA new surveillance tools have no place in the omnibus, and that it’s not too late for the Speaker to #StopCISA .</p><p style="padding:1em 0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none">Your voice matters. Get mad and get LOUD, right now!</p></div><br><br><br><br><br><br><a href="http://www.districtdispatch.org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