CISA (Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015) easily passed through the U.S. Senate's vote on Tuesday, creating a new avenue for consumer data sharing that benefits anti-privacy entities like the NSA, reports The Guardian.

CISA vote cruises through Senate

The vote was attended and levied by 95 of the 100 U.S. Senators, as five either abstained or missed the voting process entirely. The five Senators who didn't vote were Cruz (R-TX), Graham (R-SC), Presidential hopeful Rand Paul (R-KY), Rubio (R-FL), and Vitter (R-LA). The vote was a landslide in favor of CISA, with a 74-21 vote in favor of its passage.

The Senators who voted against it were Baldwin (D-WI), Booker (D-NJ), Brown (D-OH), Cardin (D-MD), Coons (D-DE), Crapo (R-ID), Daines (R-MT), Franken (D-MN), Heller (R-NV), Leahy (D-VT), Lee (R-UT), Markey (D-MA), Menendez (D-NJ), Merkley (D-OR), Risch (R-ID), Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sullivan (R-AK), Tester (D-MT), Udall (D-NM), Warren (D-MA), and Wyden (D-OR).

In short, New Jersey, Vermont, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, and Massachusetts were the only ones to have both Senators vote against the bill.

The bill was introduced by co-sponsors Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein, both committee chairmen for the Senate Intelligence Committee back in March. The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 does exactly what the title describes. It creates a program at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), through which corporations could share user data in bulk with several US government agencies.

In exchange for participating, the companies would receive complete immunity from Freedom of Information Act requests and regulatory action relating to the data they share. DHS would then share the information throughout the government.