A U.S. Senator's bill to broaden cybersecurity intelligence gathering is in trouble after other legislators question whether proposed protections comes at the expense of citizens' privacy.

The bill introduced by Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) to strengthen cybersecurity through better public-private information sharing is the latest congressional proposal to come into the crosshairs of civil liberties groups and privacy advocates. Their campaign to stop passage of the bill as it is currently written may be working, given statements released this week from Lieberman's congressional counterparts.

“I have serious concerns about this bill,” Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) told the Web site Politico in a statement. “As written, the legislation moves aside decades of privacy laws to allow companies to freely monitor American citizens’ communications and give their personal information to the federal government — and grants companies near total immunity for doing so.”

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