Wyden Says He's Discussing Pro-Privacy Amendments to Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said he has been in discussions with multiple senators about possible amendments to the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (S-754) that would strengthen the bill’s privacy protections. “There is a good group of senators who have approached…
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us about” working “for additional privacy protections when this bill comes to the floor,” Wyden said during a Friday Christian Science Monitor event. Wyden was the sole vote against S-754 March 17 when the Senate Intelligence Committee voted 14-1 to approve the bill. S-754 and its House companion, the Protecting Cyber Networks Act (HR-1560), would provide liability protections to private sector companies that share cyberthreat information with U.S. intelligence agencies. The House is to vote on HR-1560 and the Department of Homeland Security-centric National Cybersecurity Protection Advancement Act (HR-1731) this week (see 1504160035), with an industry lobbyist telling us Friday that there's a continuing push to have the House Rules Committee marry elements of the two bills. More than 65 cybersecurity groups sent a joint letter Thursday to Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C., House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, and the House committees’ ranking members saying they oppose HR-1560, HR-1731 and S-754 because waiving privacy rights isn’t necessary for effective cybersecurity information sharing.