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CISPA Passes Committee 18-2
This post CISPA Passes Committee 18-2 originally appeared on Truth About Bills
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) has passed the House Intelligence Committee on a vote of 18-2. It is expected to reach the floor of the House for a general vote next week. According to The Hill’s Jennifer Martinez, amendments passed include a move to require the removal of personally identifiable information from data sent from ISPs to Federal agencies.
Criticism over CISPA
CISPA has been criticized by the public and tech industry companies including Facebook and Microsoft. The White House has yet to fulfill a response to an anti-CISPA petition that received over 100,000 signatures. While President Obama has taken his own measures this year to promote cybersecurity information sharing, including an executive order that allows the government to share more information on cyber threats with private companies, his administration threatened last year to veto CISPA if it passed Congress.
Will CISPA make it to law?
Even with the mild amendments currently made to CISPA, it is far from clear if the bill has been sufficiently rectified to become a measure worthy of becoming law. When CISPA made it through the House last year, it was done in such a way that a number of its own sponsors voted against it. The bill still has a long way to go before becoming law, and must be voted on by the full House — something The Hill says is expected to happen next week. From there, CISPA will need to be taken up by the Senate (which failed to act on the bill last year), before heading to the president.
This post CISPA Passes Committee 18-2 originally appeared on Truth About Bills
2013-04-12 09:02:46
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