Bernie Sanders comes out against CISA, a controversial cybersecurity bill

[LiberalArkie]

Sen. Bernie Sanders opposes a controversial cybersecurity bill that could soon come up for a vote in the Senate, his office tells the Daily Dot.

Sanders' stance on the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act in its current form aligns him with privacy advocates and makes him the only Democratic presidential candidate to stake out that position, just as cybersecurity issues loom large over the 2016 election, from email server security to the foreign-policy implications of data breaches.

The Senate is preparing to vote on CISA, a bill to address gaps in America's cyberdefenses by letting corporations share threat data with the government. But privacy advocates and security experts oppose the bill because customers' personal information could make it into the shared data.

Sanders, an independent Vermont senator and leading 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, evidently shares some of those concerns.

http://www.dailydot.com/politics/bernie-sanders-cisa-senate-2016-presidential-candidates/