An amendment for the recently passed Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) bill would permit the US courts to chase and jail foreign nationals for crimes committed overseas.
According to a report by The Guardian on Oct.22, the objective of the amendment of the controversial bill is to lower the difficulty for indicting crimes committed outside the United States.
The amendment of the cybersecurity bill was initiated by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. Reports have revealed that the amendment of CISA bill passed in the Senate on Thursday.
Sputnik News reported on the same day that the amendment would make stealing of data from any American company a crime punished by imprisonment in the US even if the crime was committed abroad.
The US Senate passed the cybersecurity bill on Tuesday after a 74-to-21 vote. Meanwhile, a co-author of the bill says they tried to make the bill clear and understandable.
“For me this has been a six year effort … and it hasn’t been easy because what we tried to do was strike a balance and make the bill understandable so that there would be a cooperative effort to share between companies and with the government,” says Senator Dianne Feinstein, as noted by The Washington Post on Tuesday. For the full article click here
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