StateScoop reports that new legislation that would establish the Water Risk and Resilience Organization to strengthen cybersecurity in water and wastewater systems across the U.S. was unveiled by Reps. John Duarte, R-Calif., and Rick Crawford, R-Ariz.
Bipartisan approval of legislation that would reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act has been achieved by the House a week before the surveillance tool's expiration on Apr. 19, reports The Associated Press.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has been urged by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and over 20 industry groups to implement a 30-day extension to the two-month feedback period for its draft rule under the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act, which would require cyber incident and ransomware disclosures within a 72- and 24-hour period, respectively, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
Technology firms would be subjected to online data collection restrictions under a new bipartisan and bicameral draft online privacy bill unveiled by Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., Reuters reports.