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October 21st, 2015 
Awake Goy 
Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Co-Founder, Legacy Bio-Naturals
October 20, 2015
Apple Inc. has published a statement regarding the efficacy of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) that is up for senatorial vote this week.
Apple said that CISA undermines basic public privacy rights and the company does not “support the current CISA proposal [because] the trust of our customers means everything to us and we don’t believe security should come at the expense of their privacy.”
Tim Cook, chief executive officer at Apple, recently spoke at the Wall Street Journal technology conference where he reiterated their anti – National Security Agency (NSA) policy.
Cook said that a no backdoor policy and encryption is a must because “if someone can get into data, it is subject to great abuse.”
The CEO vehemently stated that “if there was a way to expose only bad people, whoever the determiner of what bad is, that would be a great thing. But this is not the world” we live in.
Even the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agrees that CISA is “fundamentally flawed” and wrote to senators to voice their concerns that this bill should be dead on arrival.
The DHS points out the CISA will not protect privacy because it cannot – the legislation does not affirm that corporations remove personal and unrelated information before sending “threat” data to the government. Because of this, tech corporations will be unwitting contributors “to the compromise of personally identifiable information by spreading it further.”
To share personal information unnecessarily is in direct conflict with the government’s contention that they want to protect user privacy.
Senator Richard Burr, chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) defended CISA as a pathway for bureaucracies to have access to data that would protect Americans from cyberattacks and identity theft.
Burr wrote in a press release: “Week after week, we learn of more cyber-attacks on Americans. Hackers have stolen detailed information about Americans’ families, their medical history and their financial data and exposed that information to criminals and foreign governments.”
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