The Senate passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act on Tuesday.

The 74-21 vote was an anticlimactic conclusion to a process that has dragged on for much for the year and drew some intense opposition. Critics ranged from privacy advocates such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation to trade associations that included much of the tech industry, most prominently the Computer and Communications Industry Association and the Business Software Alliance. Other prominent critics included presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.