The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has warned that the proposed Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) will “increase the complexity and difficulty of a new information-sharing program” and “sweep away important privacy protections,” NationalJournal reports. DHS Deputy Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas made the comments in an official letter to Sen. Al Franken (D-MN), who requested information from the agency. The DHS “letter makes it overwhelmingly clear that, if the Senate moves forward with this cybersecurity information-sharing bill, we are at risk of sweeping away important privacy protections and civil liberties,” Franken said in response. The Financial Services Roundtable, however, has launched an advertising campaign encouraging lawmakers to pass CISA.
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