Sen. Ron Wyden Says CISA Data Collection Could Put Americans At Risk

blottsie writes: In a new interview, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) says the Cyber Information Sharing Act of 2015 (CISA) may put more Americans at risk because the U.S. government has failed to learn the right security lessons from the attack on the Office of Personnel Management. He says, in part: "I've been watching as this goes forward—there's this phrase going around the cybersecurity community, 'If you can't protect it, don't collect it.' Now, there is never going to be a system that's 100 percent safe. But what I'm going to start [saying] on the floor as we get to this [CISA debate], is, you give the government a huge new trove of personal information about Americans before you've addressed the problems that were documented all the way back to 2007—those security holes—before you address those, [before] you plug them, that's like responding to a bear attack by stockpiling honey. That's going to be how I open the debate."

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Re:And what about after the security is up to snuf

[Penguinisto]

Disclaimer - I live in Oregon.

Wyden is not a member of a party that I tend to vote for, and his recent vote on the Iran deal (among others) leaves me rather disgusted at him for being not much more than a party toadie when it comes to most issues. That said, I will freely admit that he's a lot more clued-in on technical issues than damned near everyone else in the Senate, and has done more for tech than nearly anyone else there.