On the recordApril 17, 2013
Woman, this amendment represents a commonsense improvement to H.R. 624, which I support, that simply narrows the scope of the authorization for the intelligence community to share classified--I stress, classified--cyber threat intelligence with private sector entities and utilities. As my colleagues are aware, the administration and some leading voices from the civil liberties and privacy rights communities have raised serious concerns with CISPA as reported out of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. These concerns revolve around the fact that many provisions of CISPA are perhaps perceived as overly vague, or outright silent, with respect to limiting the scope of information sharing and mitigating the risk of unintended consequences. For example, section 2 of CISPA, titled ``Cyber Threat Intelligence and Information Sharing,'' is silent on what specific purposes classified cyber threat intelligence may be used, retained, or further disclosed by a certified entity.…





