Microsoft endorsing Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA)?

My wife got an email this morning from a company who has a copy of a letter to Congress Microsoft signed endorsing the evil new US Government spy program called the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA).

Here is the document: http://www.bsa.org/~/media/Files/Pol...endaLetter.pdf

Here is the webpage the email spoke of Betrayed by Tech and also it's parent website, Fight for the Future, defending our basic rights and freedoms

Here's a quote:

"Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, Symantec, and a handful of other tech companies just began publicly lobbying Congress to pass Cyber Threat Information Sharing legislation, like CISA, a bill that would give corporations total legal immunity when they share private user data with the government and with each other. Many of these companies have previously claimed to fight for their users' privacy rights, but by supporting this type of legislation, they've made it clear that they've abandoned that position, and are willing to endanger their users' security and civil rights in exchange for government handouts and protection."

Check this out for yourselves folks and tell me what you think. Is this real? If this is real, I wanna know why Microsoft is doing this after all the spying humbug of a few years ago.

Thanks, Lothar


Also from the website, their take on CISA just so you understand where they are coming from:

"What's wrong with CISA?If you’re not up to speed, CISA is a mass surveillance bill posing as a “cybersecurity” bill. Congress has been blindly scrambling to react to the OPM hacks, and their solution is a giveaway to the NSA and giant corporations:
All privacy policies effectively null and void. Companies can share any private user data with the government, without a warrant, as long as the government says it is being used for a “cybersecurity” purpose.
Data is shared with a wide array of government agencies, from the FBI and NSA, to the IRS and local law enforcement.
In exchange, companies are given blanket immunity from civil and criminal laws, like fraud, money laundering, or illegal wiretapping (if a violation was committed or exposed in the process of sharing data).
Companies that play along can get otherwise classified intelligence data from the government, including private information about their competitors.

I thought people could not pass laws that are against the US Constitution - Our right to privacy in all forms is protected by that document we consider law. If you wanted to change that you would need to pass an amendment to the US Constitution allowing this restriction on our privacy.

I suspect those who want this bill passed cannot expect to ever get this amendment passed into the Constitution so they have to sneak around it. If someone seeks to get around the Constitution fraudulently, why.. that's the very definition of tyranny.

How can they even try to pass such a law? Secondly, Couldn't someone fight this on the grounds it isn't Constitutional? Seems to me they can.