HILL TECH & CYBER BRIEFING: Privacy, Cyber Budget Funds Advance

Sept. 15, 2021, 10:07 AM UTC

House panels advanced measures to create a new $1 billion privacy bureau at the FTC and to provide nearly $900 million for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to help the public and private sectors respond to increased cyberattacks.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee and the House Homeland Security Committee advanced their respective sections of the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package during separate markups yesterday.

One of the newest provisions would provide $1 billion over ten years to create a bureau within the Federal Trade Commission focused on privacy violations, data security, identity theft, data abuses and related ...

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