Franken Amendment Seeks to Protect Cybersecurity Privacy
The Senate is expected to consider the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 prior to the August recess. Unlike the Secure IT Act, the Cybersecurity Act would avoid the NSA takeover of the Internet. However, privacy concerns remain about the broad authority of Internet companies to monitoring Internet users and turn information to the government. An amendment sponsored by Senator Al Franken (D-Minn) would limit this surveillance. A provision that limits the disclosure of cybersecurity threat information remains in the Act. Earlier this year, EPIC recommended to the Senate that the Freedom of Information Act limitation be removed. For more information, see EPIC: Cybersecurity Privacy Practical Implications.
July 30, 2012| Share:
