CISPA Moves To House Floor with Critical Flaws
Washington – Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will consider the controversial cybersecurity bill, CISPA. The Center for Democracy & Technology has produced an analysis explaining that it opposes the bill because CISPA would:
- Lead to an unprecedented and dangerous militarization of the federal government’s cybersecurity program
- Permit companies to share Internet user information with the government, and with each other, without making any effort to strip out personally identifiable information irrelevant to a cyber threat
- Invite companies to “hack back” and engage in reckless cybersecurity conduct that causes injury to others
- Pre-empt all privacy laws (and all other laws) to permit information sharing with the government
The analysis acknowledges and explains improvements made to the bill—including significant limits on non-cybersecurity uses of information shared for cybersecurity reasons—and why the bill is still critically flawed despite these improvements.
