{"id":3701,"date":"2015-10-26T13:46:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T17:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/?p=3701"},"modified":"2015-10-26T13:46:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T17:46:36","slug":"take-action-for-libraries-cisa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/2015\/10\/26\/take-action-for-libraries-cisa\/","title":{"rendered":"Take action for libraries and make your voice heard about CISA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press Release from the American Library Association Washington Office:<\/h2>\n
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Nobody likes cyber-attacks, but the bill the
\n<\/span><\/strong>US Senate is set to vote on TOMORROW \u2013
\nthe Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act or CISA (S.754<\/span>)<\/a> \u2013 is awful when it comes to your privacy.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Skip the explanation and take action now!<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n

For all of the reasons just detailed on District Dispatch<\/a>, including the possibility that companies could take \u201cdefensive measures\u201d unilaterally to disrupt library (or any other) computer networks, ALA and its coalition partners<\/a> (the ACLU, EFF and companies like Apple and Twitter) have been lobbying hard against passage of CISA. At the same time, we are trying to make it \u201cless bad\u201d by supporting important amendments to protect FOIA and personal privacy.<\/p>\n

The Senate votes tomorrow! We and our partners, in dozens of meetings, have laid the substantive groundwork. Now it\u2019s your turn to make that count – literally. We need thousands of librarians to use this one-click tool<\/a> to tell both of their US Senators\u2019 offices right now to:<\/p>\n