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• Groups urge Obama to oppose cyberthreat sharing bills

  They say the Senate's CISA cyberthreat information sharing bill would allow businesses to share too much information

• New NSA phone dragnet proposals blasted as flawed

  Proposals to renew portions of the Patriot Act wouldn't end bulk phone records collection, critics say

• Civil liberties groups oppose bill ending NSA's bulk phone records program

  The USA Freedom Act's changes to the phone records program are 'modest' at best, opponents say

• ACLU: NSA phone dragnet should be killed not amended

  The recent USA Freedom Act doesn't go far enough in reforming surveillance, an ACLU lawyer says

• Senate panel secretly approves cyberthreat sharing bill

  One senator called the legislation a 'surveillance bill by another name'