Political Quotes

“I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record a letter of support from FreedomWorks, a leading conservative voice on these issues. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: FreedomWorks, Washington, DC, October 26, 2015. Key Vote YES on the Wyden Amendment #2621 to CISA As one of our over 6.9 million FreedomWorks activists nationwide, I urge you to contact your senators and ask them to vote YES on the Wyden amendment to add crucial privacy protections to the Cyber Information Sharing Act (CISA), S. 754. CISA purports to facilitate stronger network security across the nation by facilitating the interchange of information on cyber threats between private companies and government agencies. But one of CISA's several gaping flaws is the incentive it creates for some companies to share this data recklessly. The personally identifiable information (PII) of a company's users can be attached to cyber threat indicators after a hack--potentially sensitive information that is generally unnecessary to diagnose the threat. But since companies which share cyber threat data are completely immune to consequence if that shared data should be misused, their incentive is to share the data as quickly as possible--even if that means some would be sharing PII.…”