Privacy advocates satisfied with rewritten Lieberman cybersecurity bill

07/21/12: The Hill reports revisions that Senator Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) made to his Cybersecurity Act seem to have appeased privacy advocates who lobbied against an earlier version of the bill.  Michelle Richardson, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), said Lieberman and other cosponsors made “substantial changes” and undertook a “Herculean effort to build privacy protections” into the bill.  Sharon Bradford Franklin, senior policy counsel at The Constitution Project, applauded the changes, saying they “go a long way toward alleviating our concerns.”  The statements mark a major shift for the privacy groups, which had urged the Senate to reject the previous version of Lieberman’s bill to prevent an erosion of civil liberties.