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Now, welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left Podcast with Cubsiday,

from the Young Turks, the Tom Harman program, Countress Ben, the David Pakman show,

Humilist Queers, All in the Media, and Activism from the ACLU.

So here's another story, how the government's screwing you and taking away your privacy rights.

Now these are core constitutional rights and the fourth amendment you need to get a warrant.

Eh, Constitution, who needs it?

So there's a new law called CISO that was stuck into an omnibus bill so that it can't be taken out

and it'll be more easily passed. That's the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015.

That's where they share your information with the government.

And Senator Ron Wyden, who's fought against it, explains that it is a surveillance bill by another name.

So of course they tell you, ah, it's the terrorists, we're trying to get the terrorists that eyes us.

Maybe not so much. Here are the verge explains. The bill would make it easier

for the private sector companies to share user information with the government

and other companies removing privacy and liability protections than the name of better cyber security.

They call the info without a warrant so that you could be more secure. I thought we weren't supposed to

trade our liberties for securities. That was a bad idea. I'm pretty sure that's what our founding

father's told us. And that it doesn't really work. You don't get either, as Benjamin Franklin famously

said. Now Evan Greer, who's with Fight for the Future campaign, said and explained, is clear now that

this bill was never intended to prevent cyber attacks. It's a disingenuous attempt to quietly expand

the US government's surveillance programs. Now we're going to wire magazine that has more details

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