The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act would make it easier for companies to share information with the government to prevent cyber-attacks.

The bill would also protect companies from lawsuits.

“We’re all interconnected,” said Jason Kratovil, a vice president of the Financial Services Roundtable, which represents banks and credit card companies in Washington. “And it just makes smart sense when we’re dealing with very, very sophisticated cyber threats to try to find a way to work cooperatively.”

But privacy advocates say the cybersecurity bill would allow massive amounts of data to be shipped to the government, without strong enough requirements that personal information be stripped out first.

“Sharing information without robust privacy standards – that is not a cybersecurity bill, it is a surveillance bill,” said Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon).