Tech giants Apple, Dropbox, Twitter, Google, Wikimedia Foundation and Facebook have all opposed a controversial cybersecurity bill known as the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) which they say will give the US government sweeping new powers to spy on Americans.
The US Senate is due to vote on CISA this week, which purports to protect Americans from hackers and aims to use the companies to gather the data.
According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) the bill will grant companies more power to obtain threat information and disclose that data to the government without a warrant.
‘The trust of our customers means everything to us and we don’t believe security should come at the expense of their privacy’
– APPLE
This includes sending data to the National Security Agency.
“It also gives companies broad immunity to spy on—and potentially even launch countermeasures against—innocent users,” the EFFsaid.
It is clear that the companies themselves from Apple to Reddit and Twitter don’t want this responsibility.
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