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Bloomberg BNA: First Cyberthreat Data Sharing Measure Passed by House With Sunset Provision

CDT’s Greg Nojeim offers comments to Bloomberg BNA regarding the latest cyberthreat data sharing measure passed by the House. 

“At a minimum, House leadership should have given House members a chance to vote on key privacy amendments” to H.R. 1560 Gregory Nojeim, director of the freedom, security and technology project at the Center for Democracy & Technology, said in an April 22 statement. “By denying the votes, they stymied a necessary debate about privacy and the extent to which internet users’ personal communications information will be shared with the NSA and law enforcement under the cybersecurity umbrella.”

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