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Everything You Need To Know About The Cybersecurity Bill Privacy Advocates Are Warning You About

The House started considering the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2013 (CISPA) on Wednesday and is expected to vote today — just two days since the White House threatened to veto the bill after it passed out of the House Intelligence Committee by an 18-2 vote in a closed session last week. Now a passionate policy debate is taking place about the importance of protecting civil liberties while solving a very real problem: How to allow government to provide threat intelligence information to victims of cyber attacks.