Thursday, April 25, 2013

Senate Commerce Committee suggests CISPA may be dead in the water

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CISPA, the controversial cybersecurity legislation passed by the House of Representatives last week, may be effectively dead for now. US News has reported that the Senate Commerce Committee, headed by Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), doesn't see the bill being taken up by the Senate. Instead, the committee is working on separate bills that will address cybersecurity but hopefully avoid CISPA's privacy pitfalls. "We're not taking [CISPA] up," says a representative. "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."


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