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Senate Passes Bill To Establish Categories Of Cybercrimes To Improve Data Collection

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, December 8th, 2021

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Senate Passes Bill To Establish Categories Of Cybercrimes To Improve Data Collection

The Senate on Tuesday approved legislation requiring the federal government to adopt categories to classify cybercrimes to more uniformly track these crimes and improve data collection around these efforts. The Better Cybercrimes Metrics Act (S. 2629) was passed by unanimous consent and would require the Attorney General to enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences to develop a taxonomy to categorize different kinds of cybercrimes and cyber-enabled crime targeting businesses and individuals. The taxonomy would help the…

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