Keeping data away from the public eye

Paul Wilders · Feb 25, 2002

Apart from a hefty increase in federal IT security spending in the coming year, the single most important tool the Bush administration wants to create to promote a safer Internet is a Freedom of Information Act exemption for enterprises willing to share cyber- security data with the government.
However, if such a carve-out to the safeguard against undue government secrecy is to pass Congress this session, it will likely have to be defined much more narrowly than the versions of the legislation currently circulating.

At a technology forum on Capitol Hill this month, Richard Clarke, the president's special adviser on cyberspace security, told congressional staffers that current FOIA rules constitute a major barrier to cooperation between the private sector and government.
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