{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.paul.senate.gov/news-sen-rand-paul-introduces-amendments-cybersecurity-bil/", "Sen. Rand Paul Introduces Amendments to Cybersecurity Bil", "2015-08-04", "2015", "2015-08", "Republican", "Senate", "KY", "Rand Paul", "P000603", "www.paul.senate.gov", "paul", "https://www.paul.senate.gov/news/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senator Rand Paul today introduced the following amendments to S.754, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act currently being considered by the U.S. Senate. The amendments are outlined in detail below.\n\nBACKGROUND INFORMATION ON SEN. PAUL\u2019S AMENDMENTS TO CYBERSECURITY BILL\n\nClarifies Whistleblower Protection\n\nAdds rule of construction indicating that the Act does not prohibit or limit disclosure of whistleblower information to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB).\n\nClarifies that whistleblowers (agency and contractor) with knowledge of FISA programs may lodge complaints with Government Accountability Office (GAO), PCLOB, Congressional Intelligence Committees, or through internal channels. Prohibits professional retaliation against whistleblowers.\n\nProtection of Existing Privacy Law\n\nClarifies that nothing in this Act shall supersede any provision of law as it relates to the retention by a Federal entity of personal information or identifying a specific United States person.\n\nPrevents liability immunity granted under the act from being used by companies to break privacy agreements with their customers\n\nCISA authorizes sweeping Internet monitoring of, and nearly unlimited sharing of information about, Internet users with the federal government, while companies are immune from lawsuits for taking these actions under this legislation.\n\nAmendment #2564, filed by Sen. Paul, would establish a simple protection for Internet users by clarifying that no company would be immune from making false promises to their customers.\n\nCongress should not make it possible for companies to monitor their customers\u2019 Internet activities and transfer their data to the government while assuring the same customers that they do neither. Instead, Congress should promote accountability to private entities providing Internet services; advance transparency on information sharing conducted by those companies; and empowers Internet users to protect their own privacy.\n\nEnd warrantless backdoor searches of Americans\u2019 communications under Sec. 702\n\nCloses the \u201cbackdoor search\u201d loophole that enables warrantless searches for information on Americans contained in phone records and emails collected under Sec. 702 of FISA.\n\nProtect the privacy of Americans\u2019 records held by third parties\n\nEstablishes a clear principle consistent with the Fourth Amendment that, as it relates to government collection, an individual\u2019s records given to a third party for a specific business purpose are equally secure in their person as those that remain in their possession, unless that third party informs the individual that it intends to share the record.\n\nThis affirms that the government cannot circumvent warrant requirements by taking Americans\u2019 records from third parties, and protects constitutional rights during engagement in regular communication and commerce.\n\nProhibit mandates on companies that they alter their products to enable government surveillance\n\nProhibits the government from issuing mandates to force the intentional alteration of security features.\n\nPrevents the government from compelling companies to deliberately weaken the encryption security of their products and services so that the government can directly access communications and data.\n\nReports on Americans Surveilled Under this Act\n\nModification of biennial report requirement to include additional transparency relating to number of United States persons subjected to monitoring and who personal information has been shared with the government.\n\nAgency Sharing\n\nRequires federal entities to remove personal information from cyber threat indicators before sharing such cyber thread indicators with other federal entities.\n\nProhibits the government from accessing collection of content without a warrant\n\nProhibits federal government access to and the collection of the content of communications of Americans without first obtaining a court approval.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T20:23:36Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.paul.senate.gov/news-sen-rand-paul-introduces-amendments-cybersecurity-bil/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.812171958386898, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}