From
Mother Jones:
This summer, when Edward Snowden dropped his bombshell about PRISM, the NSA's vast Internet spying program, the House had recently passed a bill called the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA). Widely criticized
by privacy advocates, CISPA aimed to beef up US cybersecurity by giving
tech companies the legal freedom to share even more cyber information
with the US government—including the content of Americans' emails, with personal information intact. CISPA supporters, among them big US companies such as Verizon and Comcast, spent 140 times more money on lobbying for the bill than its opponents, according to the Sunlight Foundation. But after Snowden's leaks, public panic over how and why the government uses personal information effectively killed the bill. Now that the dust has settled a bit, NSA director Keith Alexander is publicly asking for the legislation to be re-introduced, and two senators confirmed that they are drafting a new Senate version.
"I am working with Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) on bipartisan
legislation to facilitate the sharing of cyber related information among
companies and with the government and to provide protection from
liability," Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) told Mother Jones in a statement.
With both Democrat and Republican support, we can safely presume this legislation will be doubly bad.
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