The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) and...

The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) spearheaded letters to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, opposing the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) (http://bit.ly/TqkeDF; http://bit.ly/1qLudBO). Privacy advocates have long opposed the bill, which has received industry support (CD May 15 p11). CISA’s markup was set for last Thursday, but was rescheduled because of the looming July 4 recess (CD June 27 p12). The ACLU’s letter argued the bill creates “threats” to whistle-blowers, transparency and privacy. CDT’s letter added the bill “arbitrarily harms average Internet users,” and is “infringing on net neutrality policy."