U.S. News & World Report: Obama on Cybersecurity
Tom Risen of U.S. News & World Report quotes CDT’s Harley Geiger regarding President Obama’s legislative proposal to enhance cybersecurity.
CDT is concerned this information-sharing legislation could enable broader government surveillance, which is in part the reason bills aiming to encourage companies sharing network threats with the government have failed in recent years.
“We recognize that companies may need to share communications information with the federal government, and with each other, to expose cybersecurity threats,” says Harley Geiger, senior counsel with the Center for Democracy and Technology. “However, the information that is shared should be voluntarily shared, narrowly limited to information indicative of cyber threats, stripped of identifying data, and used only for cybersecurity.”
