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USTelecom and CTIA are concerned about the Commerce Department’s data disclosure...

USTelecom and CTIA are concerned about the Commerce Department’s data disclosure directive, they said in a letter to Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt. The groups said they want to know more about how the…

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data will be used and shared and what security precautions will be employed. Current efforts to understand how the information will be used “have been met with ambiguity,” the letter said. USTelecom and CTIA said their concerns are “exacerbated” by the fact that the directive carries criminal penalties for noncompliance under the Defense Production Act. The groups asked in the letter that Locke provide more time to the recipients of the directive in order to “provide a sufficient opportunity for engagement on and resolution of all reasonable concerns.”