Mar 12, 2015 7:28 PM PT By Grant Gross
A U.S. Senate committee has voted in secret to approve a controversial bill that seeks to encourage businesses to share information about cyberthreats with each other and with government agencies.
The Senate Intelligence Committee, meeting behind closed doors, voted 14-1 late Thursday to approve the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act [cisa], even though Senator Ron Wyden, who cast the lone vote against the legislation, said it doesn't adequately protect privacy.
"If information-sharing legislation does not include adequate privacy protections, then that's not a cybersecurity bill -- it's a surveillance bill by another name," Wyden said in a statement. The bill would have a "limited impact" on U.S. cybersecurity, he added.
The committee released a discussion draft of the bill last month, but did not publicly release an updated text of CISA before voting to send it to the Senate floor. The committee will release the text of the bill after amendments are added to it, it said in a news release.
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The proposed Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act would make us less secure.
The Senate Intelligence Committee has passed CISA (Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act). If it becomes law, we'll all be worse off. The bill does not do what it claims (protect us from cyber attacks) but instead makes it easier for the government to spy on us electronically.
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Read NowThose who promote the act claim that it successfully balances security and privacy. But if you read the bill, you see that claim is not true.
Ostensibly, the new amendments were designed to protect Internet users' personal information and to provide new ways for companies and federal agencies to coordinate a defense around cyber attacks. Considering the number of attacks that have made the news recently, this sounds like a good move.
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