Senate Homeland Security Committee leaders presented an updated cybersecurity bill...
Senate Homeland Security Committee leaders presented an updated cybersecurity bill late Thursday that prohibits an Internet shutdown in the U.S. The bill, by Chairman Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., contains a provision that explicitly forbids the…
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president or “any other officer or employee of the federal government” from shutting down the Internet. “There is no so-called ‘kill switch’ in our legislation because the very notion is antithetical to our goal of providing precise and targeted authorities to the President,” said Lieberman in a joint press release with Collins. The bill differs from Lieberman’s former cybersecurity bill, S-3480, which did not expressly prohibit an Internet “kill switch” (WID June 25 p3). The bill calls for Congress to set up an Office of Cyberspace Policy, a National Center for Cyberspace and Communications, and a U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team within the center to monitor and analyze the security of the federal information infrastructure. “This legislation strikes that careful balance [of] providing the tools that America needs to better protect cyberspace while additionally protecting our civil liberties,” said Collins.