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Critics are trying to portray the tech community as split or opposed to cybersecurity bills moving through Congress. They are wrong. The tech sector is 100 percent behind the effort to strengthen America’s cybersecurity defenses. It’s in the best interest of America and Americans.
 
Quite simply, cybersecurity is personal security.
 
Last year, personal information â€" names, addresses, Social Security numbers, credit card information, and the like â€" represented 95 percent of all the data compromised by cyber intrusion. Criminals used this data for identity theft, phishing campaigns, and other fraud. We have an opportunity to provide people with stronger shields against these crimes by building defenses that are fast, flexible, and adaptive to the threats we face each day.

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