Privacy groups are calling on U.S. lawmakers to make significant changes to the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA). The 41 groups include the Center for Democracy and Technology, the ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and they want the House Intelligence Committee to debate the bill publicly rather than behind closed doors. While Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) said recently that concerns with CISPA are due to bad PR, the ACLU says everyone, “from the privacy community to the president, agrees that CISPA is bad on privacy.” Meanwhile, a recent survey indicates data security concerns from American Chamber of Commerce members operating in China are on the rise.
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