The U.s. House of Representatives has v completed. r the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act voted. What is uncertain is whether the Senate and president Obama, the controversial cybersecurity-bill support.
The House of Representatives approved the bill by 248 votes to 168 against good, especially with the support of the republican party. The proposal still needs the senate and the president to be approved before it can go into. President Obama has already threatened to veto if the legislation in its current form. According to him, is missing in the law to ‘clear protection, and restrictions with an independent supervision’.
Cispa is under fire from burgerrechtenbewegingen, because the text is too vague and too broad, and the application might not would be limited to computer and internet security. Review of the text of the act shows that the provisions of the text so worded that the law, for example, can also be used against The Pirate Bay or WikiLeaks. According to these claims the new bill is in the direction of the hotly contested Sopa proposal, and that all by the American government, is repealed.
According to TechDirt is on Cispa at the last moment, even an amendment made to the application to expand it with ‘investigation and prosecution of cyberbeveiligingscriminaliteit, and the protection of individuals and children’. In this case, cybercrime is defined as crime in which use is made of netwerkverstoring and hacking.
Some organizations and internet companies are sympathetic to the proposal. Facebook told the bill to support, because the responsibility for cybersecurity in the government. Companies would not need to do computer security and such guarantee, but must simply give the information that the government requires, which the last of the necessary measures.