EFF - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the lead agency tasked with protecting civilian government computer systems, agrees that the Senate's Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) is fundamentally flawed. DHS's letter to Senator Al Franken, which voiced many concerns about the bill, joins the chorus of criticisms raised by computer scientists, privacy advocates, and civil society organizations. It's the clearest sign yet that the Senate should kill this bill.
The letter explains why the bill won’t—and can’t—protect users' privacy: CISA simply doesn’t make companies remove unrelated personal information before sending “threat” information to the government.
DHS derides the bill's failure to mandate a privacy scrub of personal data, explaining that DHS will be forced to "contribute to the compromise of personally identifiable information by spreading it further." Companies and the government should be securing our personal information, not sharing it unnecessarily.
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