Sweeping Surveillance Act Included in Last-Minute US Federal Spending Bill

[CJCRANE]

EXCERPT:

On Friday, US President Barack Obama approved the $1.15 trillion federal government spending bill days before the government would have run out of funding; it includes a contentious cybersecurity act which is seen by privacy activists and lawmakers as a free pass for mass surveillance and data theft.

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The legislation will allow private companies to share user data with the Department of Homeland Security, which would then be obligated to share the data across "relevant government agencies," presumably including the FBI and the NSA.

LINK:

http://sputniknews.com/us/20151219/1032005051/cybersecurity-bill-obama-privacy.html

[grasswire]

1. damn

I wonder who tucked that little trick inside the bill.

[2pooped2pop]

3. I think McConnell said something about revisiting the patriot act changes.

I bet he was involved.

[Fumesucker]

2. Well that's a relief

I was afraid we were all going to die by terrorist attack but now I know the government will have all the tools necessary to keep us safe, no need to worry.

It's a crying shame how our tireless public servants have to sneak such critical legislation through by means of misdirection and skulduggery.

[Downwinder]

5. No more Homan Centers, no more corrupt Cops,

they have all the tools they need to keep them straight.

[LuvNewcastle]

4. What more do they want.

They already have more data they can use on all of us. Maybe cameras in our home bathrooms? Maybe cameras up our assholes? What can they get now that they couldn't before? Perhaps we should all just post naked pictures of ourselves in various positions and put them on the internet. Then we could write down the worst thing we've ever done so that everyone can read it. The new American is a man or woman wearing nothing but a gun in a holster.

[Taitertots]

7. Your colonoscopy is digital. The government already has access.

Now it's about sharing the non-terrorism results of mass surveillance with law enforcement.

[KG]

6. DU's security state lovers will be in their bunk.

[TheUnspeakable]

8. Not to mention $1.5 TRILLION

Think of all the better things that money
could've gone to, if this was in any
way still a "democracy"

[JCMach1]

9. unfunded tax giveaway AND this Cybersecurity BS again ... where are the Democrats on this one

Is there even a ghost of a chance of a fillibuster?