Lege Trend | Tuck Data Security Bill into Spending Bill

Change general law in a spending bill? No, say it isn’t so. Yes, it is so. 

Congress is adding data security language to is spending authorization bill. Here are the highlights that have privacy advocaes on the right and left up in arms:

• The government already spies on its citizens too much
• Going light on businesses that share more information about data breaches with the government and other businesses isn’t helping privacy
• Protecting from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act all this collected data breach information isn’t open government

Post Recorder | Major cyber security legislation tucked into US spending bill