04/01/10 Senate Considers Legislation Aimed At Enhancing Cybersecurity

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The Senate Commerce Committee is considering sweeping legislation aimed at enhancing the public-private coordination to defend the nation's communications systems and other critical infrastructure against cyber attacks. The Cybersecurity Act, co-sponsored by John Rockefeller (D-W.V.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), heads to the full Senate for consideration after four revisions to the original bill introduced last April. In a concession to sharp criticism from privacy groups and others, the senators dropped controversial provisions that would authorize the president to seize control and shut down private networks after declaring a "cybersecurity emergency," and also stripped out language that would have given the Commerce Department a mandate to supersede current privacy laws when dealing with an attack.

For more information:
http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2010/03/cybersecurity-act-heads-to-sen.html