House Intelligence Ranking Member Sees 'Vast Majority' of Privacy Issues in Cyber Info Sharing Bill Resolved
House Intelligence Committee ranking member Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said he believes “the vast majority of the privacy issues” raised in advance of the committee’s expected release this week of its version of cybersecurity information sharing legislation “have been met and…
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we will still have a product that is effective to counter these attacks.” His comments came during a C-SPAN Newsmakers interview that was shown Sunday. The bill House Intelligence is to release will mirror much of what’s contained in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (S-754), Schiff said. Senate Intelligence cleared S-754 March 13 and released the postmarkup text of the bill last week, with the revised bill’s text drawing criticism from privacy groups (see 1503190058). Schiff said the situation has changed from last year, when “we were far apart on key issues and concerns in the privacy community.” There’s broader agreement on the need to remove personally identifiable information (PII) from cyberthreat data shared with the government, which “gives me confidence that we can move forward on a bill,” Schiff said. Meanwhile, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, circulated a discussion draft Friday of his National Cybersecurity Protection Advancement Act, which would make the Department of Homeland Security the “primary interface” for private sector-to-government cyber information sharing. The bill doesn’t prohibit the private sector from sharing information via other agencies, including the National Security Agency. The bill includes guidelines for DHS monitoring and oversight of the sharing program and includes a mechanism for the department to end sharing with a specific company if it repeatedly fails to strip out PII. The bill would also rename DHS’ National Protection and Programs Directorate as the “Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Directorate.”