Senators vote down privacy protections

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As the Senate prepared to pass the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act on Tuesday, Republicans voted down a spate of amendments that would have strengthened the bill’s privacy protections.

Senators led efforts to amend the legislation in order to enhance the individual privacy protections in its provisions. However, with few Republicans and only some Democrats supporting them, the proposals fell short of passing.

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