More than 65 cyber security professionals and academics have come out against a trio of bills moving through Congress that are meant to enable information sharing about digital threats between businesses and the Government.
In a letter sent today to ranking members from both parties of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees and the chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, the group of 65 urge Congress to reject the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act and two similar bills.
“We do not need new legal authorities to share information that helps us protect our systems from future attacks,” they wrote. “Generally speaking, security practitioners can and do share this information with each other and with the federal government while still complying with our obligations under federal privacy laws.”
The signatories of the letter said: “The bills weaken privacy law without promoting security,” they said in the letter.
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