In response to concerns that CDT and others raised, the House Intelligence Committee has agreed to support several important privacy improvements to the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA). Other issues we raised—the flow of Internet data directly to the National Security Agency (NSA) and the use of information for purposes unrelated to cybersecurity—are not addressed by the amendments the Committee is supporting. We support amendments to address these unresolved concerns.  

Improvements Supported by the Committee

1. On the question of intellectual property and whether CISPA is some kind of backdoor SOPA, the Committee made changes in its April 16, 2012 discussion draft that we think should put that issue to rest.