CISPA is the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act passed with bipartisan support by a 248-168 vote in the U.S. House of Representatives, despite warnings from privacy experts and a growing public outcry.
The main reason companies are supporting CISPA is because it takes the pressure to regulate users off the private company. Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) required private companies to keep track of what its users were doing and held private companies liable for its users. CISPA transfers that role and responsibility over to a government entity. Effectively, it makes it so a company cannot be sued by a user for handing their information over to the law.
What the problem with CISPA?
The problem is that the legislation would give ISPs and other Internet companies too much leeway to collect and share all kinds of user data with the government. And, they add, government agencies could use the data They say it will let federal agencies use the data for national security and other law enforcement purposes as well as to blunt cyber thieves.
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