House Passes Cybersecurity Bill Despite Privacy Protests

Posted by bob on Apr 24, 2015 10:00 AM
By Wired
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House of Representatives voted 307-116 to pass the Protecting Cyber Networks Act, a bill designed to allow more fluid sharing of cybersecurity threat data between corporations and government agencies... But privacy critics say it also threatens to open up a new backchannel for surveillance of American citizens, in some cases granting the same companies legal immunity to share their users’ private data with government agencies that include the NSA.

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