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The Cybersecurity and Information Sharing Act (S.754), or CISA, cleared an important hurdle on Thursday when the Senate voted 83-14 to end debate on several amendments to the bill.  CISA creates a cyberthreat information sharing system to, in the words of the bill, “improve cybersecurity in the United States.”  Specifically, as currently drafted, the bill requires various government actors and agencies (such as the Attorney General and the Department of Homeland Security) to create specific policies and regulations relating to the sharing of cyberthreat data from private entities and within government entities.  … More

A key distinguishing feature of U.S. data privacy laws is their patchwork nature.  There are industry-specific data privacy laws at the federal level (think HIPAA or the GLBA), yet there are no comprehensive federal standards that governs an entity’s obligations in the event of a data breach like the EU’s Data Privacy Directive.  For data breach response, in addition to the possible application of an industry-specific law or regulation,… More

On May 27, 2009, Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB) issued a report entitled “Toward A 21st Century Framework for Federal Government Privacy Policy” (.pdf) that calls on Congress to amend the Privacy Act of 1974, establish the position of Chief Privacy Officer in numerous executive agencies and develop a Chief Privacy Officers’ Council. ISPAB is a group that advises the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),… More