Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson downplayed concerns from civil-liberties groups like the ACLU, saying he is satisfied with the “adequate privacy protections” in the House and Senate versions of the cyber security bill.
“We worked very hard with the Congress to establish DHS, which is a civilian agency, as the single portal through which we are encouraging the private sector to provide indicators for which there is a limitation on civil and criminal liability if you do. And at DHS we have constructed a system for real-time and near real-time information sharing with a privacy scrub built into the system where a privacy scrub is necessary — and that is unique among all the federal agencies, and we’ve set it up that way,” Johnson said at the Council on Foreign Relations.“So when information is shared with other federal departments and agencies, we have vetted it to ensure privacy. And that was a critical component of the Senate bill in particular and there’s a different version of it in the House bill, which I hope gets worked out in conference, but I’m satisfied that both pieces of legislation provide for adequate privacy protections coming with respect to information from the private sector.” For the full article click here
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