Leave it to Congress to keep recycling the same old, rejected ideas. A year after Edward Snowden's revelations about overreaching government spying and amid calls by tech companies to reform surveillance practices, CISPA is once again rearing its ugly head.
You remember the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act: introduced in 2011 but failed to pass the Senate, then reintroduced in 2013 only to be beaten back a second time. This go-around, Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Saxby Chambliss (R.-Ga.) have stripped out the mention of "protection" and rechristened their draft bill the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act.
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