On 12 February 2013, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) was reintroduced in the US House of Representatives by Representatives Mike Rogers (R-Michigan) and Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Maryland). CISPA, which would provide a cybersecurity exemption from existing privacy law, was withdrawn last year under pressure from civil liberties advocates.
The proposed legislation would give overbroad immunity to corporations and other organizations who choose to share user data — including private user data — with the US government without a warrant. Cybersecurity information is defined within the proposed legislation as information “pertaining to a vulnerability of” a system or network. The only limitation would be that the organization must be acting for a vaguely defined cybersecurity purpose. For example, a corporation working to safeguard its network would meet the cybersecurity purpose limitation.
CISPA would almost totally immunize an organization from legal liability for monitoring, acquiring, or sharing cybersecurity threat information — overriding existing privacy law including the Stored Communications Act and Wiretap Act — so long as the organization was acting in good faith. The immunity provided organizations extends to decisions — including bad decisions — made by the organization. Moreover, information provided by organizations to the government under CISPA would be exempt from Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requirements.
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