All the big tech companies want CISA because it legalizes data sharing programs like PRISM. To date, they've been forced to do this for years under Section 702 of FISA, but the whole thing has been in breach of their privacy agreements with customers.

Remember when EFF sued AT&T for [letting the NSA wiretap their Internet backbone facilities][1]? Congress killed the lawsuit by retroactively granting immunity under the FISA Amendments Act.

CISA is just the same thing, but for newer programs like PRISM, and tech companies want the immunity because they're otherwise being exposed to major liability.

Personally, I think a better idea would be to reform Section 702 of FISA to ban programs like PRISM. The government should be required to get a warrant when they want to look at private data.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

for uncle sam to get a warrant is just dandy but thats not going to protect us from organized crime or the intelligence services of other nations.

We need security that my mother can understand. dad had a top secret clearance so mom understands why she needs to shred paper documents.

ive had no such luck explaining to her how to maintain her privacy with her imac.

government contractors pay the lobbyists. consider that the very first cray was purchased by the nsa.