04.11.2014 - 08:30 [ Techdirt ]

Congress Wants To Push Dangerous Cybersecurity Bill After The Election, Says US Economy Depends On It

It also sounds like there may be some sort of potential trade-off, in which Congress will try to lump this bill with the USA Freedom Act, as the White House is said to be focused on surveillance reform over the cybersecurity bill. But, the reality is that the two are in many ways attached. And there are increasing worries that the final result on the USA Freedom Act will, in some ways, actually (yet again) enhance the NSA, rather than hold it back.