Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015

Floor Speech

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Mr. COONS. Mr. President, I rise today to urge my colleagues to support my amendment to make sure that this bill strikes the right balance between privacy and security.

I respect the very hard work of Senators Burr and Feinstein and the constructive amendment that my senior Senator Tom Carper added to the managers' amendment. I do believe this bill has made significant movement in the right direction. But I remain concerned, and my amendment's purpose is to require that DHS review all cyber threat indicators it receives and to remove personally identifying information by the most efficient means practicable. It would not necessarily--according to the amendment in the managers' package--be required that DHS scrub, unless multiple agency heads unanimously agree on the scrubbing process. My amendment's purpose is to simply ensure that these privacy scrubs--done at machine speed, done in a responsible way--protect citizen privacy and our security. I don't think we should be forced to choose between those two.

I urge my colleagues to support my amendment.

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