Looking at the Apr17 version of HR 3523 on thomas.loc.gov (the amended version is not out yet), it seems that it says: * The government is allowed to share "cl

Looking at the Apr17 version of HR 3523 on thomas.loc.gov (the amended version is not out yet), it seems that it says: * The government is allowed to share "classified cyber threat intelligence" with private parties. * Private parties are allowed to share data with the government, and the government is not allowed to "affirmatively" search it except for specific categories of crimes. * These categories include warezing, which is probably upsetting a lot of people. Does anyone know what an "affirmative" search is? Is this where it is assumed that the 4th Amendment's warrant requirement is being dropped? I don't see anything in there about collecting data other than what is given to the government by private parties. Of course, "contractors" can be used to offset the blame. The government could pay telcos to tap their wires and forward everything to Langley, which is also a nice way of corruptly sending public funds to the already wealthy. However, I believe this could already be done without this law. Does anyone know how the law compares to what existed before? If a network provider sniffed their own wires and came to the government with evidence of warezing, an imminent terrorist threat, kiddie porn, a script kiddie DOSing someone, or script kiddie porn, how would it have been handled before this law?