unfortunately, as it now stands, the cybersecurity information sharing act, cisa, falls short. since this legislation was first introduced, i and a number of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle have raised serious concerns about the problems that the bill presents for americans' privacy and for the effective operation of our nation's cyber defense. my colleagues and i are not alone. serious concerns have been raised by technologists, security experts, civil society organizations from across the political spectrum and major tech companies such as apple, dropbox, twitter, yelp, sales force.com and mozilla. neither the business software alliance nor the computer and communications industry association support cisa as -- as written. in a letter i received from the department of homeland security this summer, the agency which has a leading role on cybersecurity for the federal government expressed concern about specific aspects of cisa. d.h.s. explained that under the bill's approach -- quote -- the complexity for both government and businesses and inefficiency of any informati

these changes will help ensure that cisa's broad authorities are not triggered in circumstances where no real cyber threats are present. this makes the bill more privacy-protective and more likely to work effective i.ly. the amendment is supported by more thank 30 -- more than 30 civil society organizations from the american civil liberties union to prominent libertarian groups like our street. as i'll describe it, it addresses specific concerns that have been raised by security experts, major tech companies, and even the department of homeland security. under cisa, companies are authorized to monitor users' online, sharing information with one another and with the federal government and deploy defensive measures, all to protect against -- quote -- "cybersecurity threats." and any action that may result in any unauthorized effort to adversely impact cybersecurity can be deemed a cybersecurity threat. that is, may result. that sets the lowest possible standard for determining when actions under cisa are justified, and that's a problem. it sets us up for over-sharing -- for the over-sha

this week, apple joined the growing list of more than 20 top tech companies to oppose cisa, saying "we don't believe , security should come at the expense of privacy." oregon democratic senator ron wyden criticized cisa during a senate debate wednesday. >> i believe this bill is badly flawed because it doesn't pass the test of showing that when , you haveinformation got to have robust privacy standards or else millions of americans are going to look up and they're going to say, that is really not cybersecurity. they're going to say it is a surveillance bill. amy: and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. nermeen: welcome to all our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. over 10 days, six predominantly black churches have been set ablaze in the st. louis area of missouri. the first fire was set october 8 at the bethel non-denominational church. then three more churches were targeted -- new northside missionary baptist church, st. augustine catholic church, and

the cyber security information sharing act, or cisa would give corporations who share bulk user datawith the government immunity from freedom of information act or foia requests related to the data sharing. critics include tech companies, like apple, and nsa whistleblower edward snowden, who tweeted "a vote for cisa is a vote against the internet." a key witness in chevron's effort to avoid paying billions of dollars for environmental contamination in the ecuadorian amazon has admitted he lied. in 2011, a group of indigenous plaintiffs won a landmark $9 billion judgment for widespread contamination from toxic dumping by texaco, which chevron later bought. but last year, a u.s. judge granted chevron a major victory, ruling the plaintiffs used corrupt means to win. much of chevron's defense rested on alberto guerra, a former ecuadorean judge, who claimed the plaintiffs offered him a $300,000 bribe to ghostwrite the ruling in their favor. but newly released documents from a secret tribunal in washington show guerra repudiated many of his allegations and admitted to lying about the bribe

the so-called "cyber-security information sharing act," or cisa, has already passed the house of representatives. but several big tech companies like apple and twitter say it does too little to protect individual privacy. joining me now to discuss the bill is "politico" reporter tim starks. help me understand this. we like to think of legislation as trying it solve a particular problem. what is the problem that c.i.s.a. is trying to solve? >> the problem here is that there is some information that's shared now on cyber security threats but not enough. the idea of this bill would be to make it so that companies could send more threat information to the government without fear of lawsuits. it helps them solve the problem of where that threat came from, and, therefore, that-- the idea is that the government has different kind of expertise than the private sector, and the government might be able to help them better than they are able to help thenselves. >> brangham: so is the idea that a company either gets hacked or thinks they're being probed by hackers, and they want to then share that with fell

additionally, cisa sets limits on information that can be collected or monitored by allowing information to be used only for cybersecurity purposes. as the american economy grows evermore dependent on the internet, i believe that cisa represents an important first step in protecting our nation's critical infrastructure from the devastating impacts of cyber attacks. congress must do more to adequately protect america's presence in cyberspace. in light of information highlighting our government's inability to protect sensitive information i join senator carper in introducing the federal information security act, that is the hatch-carper bill, and it shines light on whether our federal government is using the most up-to-date cybersecurity practices and software to protect federal computer systems and databases from both external cyber attackers and insider threats. specifically, this legislation requires federal agency inspectors general to report to congress on the security practices and software used to safeguard classified and personally identifiable information on federal computer syste

the cisa allows companies to share information about hacking with each other. so target gets hacked, it can warn walmart and give details of the hacks. normally companies aren't allowed to conspire, and i mean that in the most innocent way about anything. in this case they can when they're trying to fight off hackers. where people got concerned, that information is concerned with the government and the government's track record is not great. you'll soon be able to hack your own car if you wanted to. right now it's generally against the law to look at, mess with, examine, change the software in your car because it's protected by copyright. the library of congress which is in charge of copyright says starting next year you can do what you want with your own car. i'm not saying you would. but the important thing is you could because you own it. in this case twitter reported losses tuesday afternoon. growth was slow as well. twitter only added 3 million users in the last three months. landon doughty tweets @landondowdycnbc. she's live at cnbc headquarters. good mor

the cisa allows company to share information about hacking with each other. so target can get hacked but shared the information with walmart to warn them. normally companies aren't allowed to conspire, and i mean that in the most innocent way, about anything. in this case they can when they're trying to fight off hackers. where people got concerned is that information also gets shared with the government and the government's privacy track record in silicon valley is not great. >>> you'll soon be able to hack your own car if you wanted to. right now it's generally against the law to look at, mess with, examine or change the software in your own car because it's protected by copyright. the library of congress, which is in charge of copyright in this case, says starting next year you can do what you want with the car you own. i'm not saying you would, but the important thing is you could, if you wanted. >>> we normally say companies report profits, in this case twitter reported losses tuesday afternoon. not only did twitter continue to lose money, it didn't gain

the cisa. silicon valley companies have largely opposed it. the bill allows companies suffering from a hack to warn and consult with competitors and their government. this is a rare case where silicon valley didn't like it but it passed through washington anyway. >> thank you, scott. >> how safe are your tires, especially in the rain? you could be driving on recalled tires and not even know it. here is why. there's no government or industry database to neat phi people of a recall. the only way is for owners to register their tires with the manufacturer. now the ntsb is calling for a national tire registration system. the agency says 500 people are killed nationwide and 19,000 injured every year because of problems with tires. from 2009 to 2013, tire manufacturers recalled more than 3 million faulty tires, but less than hofl of those tires were actually pulled off the road. >> hopefully your tires have a good grip on them this morning because the roadways are a little slick out there. mike is following that. >> we went out this morning earlier,

association that represents google and amazon, facebook, microsoft, yahoo, netflix, and paypal said, "cis "cisa's prescribed mechanism for sharing of cyber threat information does not sufficiently protect users' privacy." now, reflect, if we might, for a minute, mr. president, on what that means. these are america's leading technology companies. they are advantage america because they are the envy of the world for their innovation and their way of serving, you know, customers and businesses, not just in this country but around the world. these companies that have millions and millions of customers and have spoken out publicly against the bill in its current form before these, you know, amendments are considered, they sure know a lot about the importance of protecting both cybersecurity and individual privacy. the reason i say that is they have to manage that challenge each and every day. customer confidence is the lifeblood of these companies, and the only way to ensure customer confidence is to convince customers that if they use your product, their information is going to be protected, both fro