OTI Disappointed that Senate Moves on Broadly Opposed Cybersecurity Bill

WASHINGTON, DC — Today Majority Leader McConnell moved to start debate and voting on the highly controversial Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA, S.754) In the past several weeks, two trade associations (BSAand CCIA) representing tech industry leaders including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook and many others, as well as individual companies and organizations such as Twitter and Wikipedia, came out in opposition of CISA because of privacy and security concerns.

The following quote can be attributed to Robyn Greene, Policy Counsel at New America's Open Technology Institute.

"Unless CISA has gotten a complete makeover, the Senate is choosing to move forward on a bill that is not only broadly opposed by the privacy and security communities, but is also opposed by tech industry leaders and innovators. The companies that are in the business of building and securing our online services and devices oppose CISA because it threatens privacy and security - that should be a sign that the Senate is going down a dangerous path for cybersecurity."

OTI has produced the following materials related to CISA:

• CISA Deep-Dive Analysis (4/2015)

• CISA One-Pager

• 71 Group Coalition Letter Opposing CISA/Urging Veto

• Op-Ed on why CISA poses a threat to national security

• Blog on CISA Amendments and OTI's Position

• Chart on 22 Amendments

• Backgrounder on Wyden/Heller Amendments

• Chart explaining what PII cyber threat indicators could reveal

• Backgrounder on Franken Amendment

• Backgrounder on Coons/Carper Amendments

• Backgrounder on Cotton Amendment

•       Blog on DHS Letter on CISA