Corporations Support CISPA, but Heritage Foundation and Obama Do Not

The Obama Administration announced Wednesday it would veto the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) bill, H.R. 3523, if it came to the President’s desk. The Administration cited concerns that the legislation would undermine personal security and civil liberties.
Sponsored by House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Mike Rogers and Ranking Member Dutch Ruppersberger, CISPA would broaden the intelligence community’s ability to share classified information about threats to the nation’s cyber security with private businesses or other non-governmental parties.
Supporters of the bill, which includes some of the largest publicly traded corporations in the United States, (and the soon-to-be-traded Facebook) claim that the bill would help businesses defend themselves against cyber attacks, and to share information with other businesses about the attacks. It would also make it easier for businesses to receive critical information faster from the government regarding or during an attack, and also limits the government’s ability to force a company to share private information.

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