Want to know what your Government is doing about cyber-security? Well, this past Thursday the House amended, then passed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, also known as CISPA. The Bill was written to help private businesses share cyber-threat information with the Federal Government and each other. How would this work? The authors of the bill imagine Google discovering a cybersecurity threat and sharing it with Microsoft. (Obviously, very few congresspeople know much about Google and Microsoft, but that’s not the point.) The point is that several privacy groups think there are two really bad aspects of the bill: the national security clause which allows the protections of the bill to be use in any case where national security is deemed to be at risk, and the second clause protects any business that shares cybersecurity information from lawsuits from users who think their privacy has been violated. What’s next? CISPA goes to the Senate.
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