[x-pubpol] CISPA Is Dead, Long Live CISPA

[Joly MacFie]

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/04/cispa-dead-long-live-cispa/64611/

After stirring up trouble for months, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and
Protection Act (CISPA) died a quiet
death<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/25/cispa-cyber-bill_n_3158221.html>
in
the Senate on Thursday. Despite the bill's passage in the House, Senators
decided to pigeonhole the legislation. It was not necessarily a surprising
move for the Upper House, especially given the fact that the Obama
administration made a veto threat. However, the Senate Committee on
Commerce, Science and Transportation is not completely forgetting about
CISPA. "We're not taking [CISPA] up," a committee representative told the
press on Thursday<http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/04/25/aclu-cispa-is-dead-for-now>.
"Staff and senators are divvying up the issues and the key provisions
everyone agrees would need to be handled if we're going to strengthen
cybersecurity. They'll be drafting separate bills."

So we get a new potentially privacy-crushing and probably problematic
cybersecurity bill! Well, we shouldn't really describe the new bill like
that since we don't know what will be in the new bill. CISPAwas
the potentially privacy-crushing and certainly problematic cybersecurity
bill<http://www.propublica.org/article/is-cipsa-sopa-20-we-explain-the-cybersecurity-bill>
that
stirred up the type of widespread outrage. It was that zombie of a
bill<http://www.zdnet.com/privacy-killer-cispa-is-coming-back-whether-you-like-it-or-not-7000011056/>
that
would enable government agencies more access to your private data. The rage
was so thick that some were ever comparing the pushback to the infamous and
ultimately successful battle to kill SOPA and PIPA, the anti-piracy bills
that would open the gate for government censorship of the Internet. But, as
The Atlantic Wire's Rebecca Greenfield explained a year ago, CISPA is worse
than SOPA<http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2012/04/why-cispa-worse-sopa/51638/>
.

Everyone from Anonymous to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
protested the legislation, and just as quietly as the Senator's tabled the
bill, privacy advocates cheered its demise. Some skepticism remains,
however. "I think it's dead for now," said the ACLU's Michelle Richardson
who realizes well how CISPA's been reincarnated in the
past.<http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/04/25/aclu-cispa-is-dead-for-now>
"We
need to be vigilant as the year moves on to make sure that whatever the
next product is, it's not CISPA-lite," she said. "I think this is probably
going to take the rest of the year."

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