Cybersecurity bill could 'sweep away' internet users' privacy, agency warns
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday said
a controversial new surveillance bill could sweep away
"important privacy protections", a move that bodes ill for the
measure's return to the floor of the Senate this week. The
latest in a series of failed attempts to reform cybersecurity,
the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (Cisa) grants broad
latitude to tech companies, data brokers and anyone with a
web-based data collection to mine user information and then
share it with "appropriate Federal entities", which themselves
then have permission to share it throughout the government.
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