Wired reports privacy concerns could not stop a Senate committee’s passage of the proposed Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act or a House committee “from following in the Senate’s surveillance-friendly footsteps. “ The House Intelligence Committee has passed the Protecting Cyber Networks Act (PCNA), “a near-mirror image of the cybersecurity data-sharing bill known as CISA that the Senate intelligence committee passed two weeks ago,” the report states, noting the PCNA and CISA “would create new legal authorizations for companies to share cybersecurity threat information with government agencies,” and critics contend both versions “have pretty much nonexistent privacy protections, along with new powers to spy on and monitor users … all while being provided broad immunity.”
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