In a blog post, Electronic Frontier Foundation Chief Program Officer Rainey Reitman called a cryptocurrency surveillance provision within the U.S. Senate’s draft infrastructure bill “a disaster for digital privacy.” The proposal contains “broad, confusing language” around the definition of “broker,” Reitman said, which would be required to collect user data and could include software developers and cryptocurrency startups. “The mandate to collect names, addresses, and transactions of customers means almost every company even tangentially related to cryptocurrency may suddenly be forced to surveil their users,” Reitman said.