The Senate is advancing legislation that would let companies andthe U.S. government share information about hacking threats, evenas privacy advocates say the plan could enable the NationalSecurity Agency to sweep up information about innocentAmericans.

Bank of America Corp., Visa Inc. and other companies operatingcritical U.S. computer systems would be given legal protections forsharing hacking threats with each other and the government under abill backed yesterday by the Senate's intelligence committee.

Supporters including the American Bankers Association and theFinancial Services Roundtable are at odds with the American CivilLiberties Union and other privacy advocates over the bill.

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