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Will a new cybersecurity law make us safer?

Clip: 12/29/2015 | 7m 15s

The act encourages private companies to share data about hacks with the government.

Folded into the massive spending and tax cut bill was a significant and controversial new law on cybersecurity. The act encourages private companies to share data about hacks with the government, but it's raising questions among security advocates and privacy groups alike. Jeffrey Brown talks to James Lewis of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Elissa Shevinsky of JeKuDo.

12/29/2015 | Rating NR

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