Cory Bennett reports: The bipartisan co-sponsors of a major cybersecurity bill reached a preliminary deal on amendments that could help speed the measure through the Senate before August recess. Sens. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the top two lawmakers on the Senate Intelligence Committee, are backing the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA). Their…
Category: Govt
Stingray surveillance sparks privacy concerns in Congress
Erin Kelly reports: Members of Congress are increasingly trying to rein in a secretive federal law enforcement program that uses devices known as Stingrays to capture cellphone data from unsuspecting Americans. “They are spying on law-abiding citizens as we speak,” said Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., who recently won House approval of a measure to end the program. Read…
DHS Raises Privacy Concerns With Senate Cyber Threat Sharing Bill
Dennis Fisher reports: A major information-sharing bill that’s in the Senate right now would allow private organizations to share threat data with any government agency, something that the Department of Homeland Security says could have severe privacy implications and cause confusion and inefficiencies inside the federal government. The bill, known as the Cybersecurity Information Sharing…
Give It Up, People: Government Regulation of IoT Is Vital
W. David Stephenson writes: Could this be the incident that finally gets everyone in the IoT industry to — as I’ve said repeatedly in the past — make privacy and security Job 1 — and to drop the lobbying groups’ argument that government regulation isn’t needed? I hope so, because the IoT’s future is at stake, and, frankly, not enough companies…