The Cybersecurity Information Sharing
Act (CISA) [113th Congress], [114th Congress]) is a United States
federal law designed to "improve
cybersecurity in the United States through enhanced sharing of information
about cybersecurity threats, and for other purposes".
The law allows the sharing of Internet
traffic information between the U.S. government and technology and
manufacturing companies. The bill was introduced in the U.S. Senate on July 10, 2014, and passed in the Senate October 27,
2015. Opponents question CISA's
value, believing it will move responsibility from private business to the government,
thereby increasing vulnerability of personal private information, as well as
dispersing personal private information across seven government agencies,
including the NSA and local police.
The text of the bill was
incorporated by amendment into a consolidated spending bill in the U.S. House on December 15, 2015, which was signed into law by President Barack Obama on December 18, 2015.
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