Next week, the U.S. House of Representatives is set to consider a number of measures intended to enhance America’s ability to avoid cyber-attacks. CTIA applauds this effort to enhance America’s national and economic security.
The centerpiece of next week’s activity will be consideration of the bipartisan Cyber Information Sharing and Protection Act (H.R. 3523)
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As CTIA has said for months now, we strongly support CISPA and urge every Representative to support it next week. It’s the single most important thing Congress can do to help improve our nation’s cybersecurity profile and protections for its citizens.
Why does the wireless industry support CISPA?
We support this legislation because our members, who are on the front lines in defending America’s communications networks from attack, believe it will promote robust and effective voluntary information sharing of cyber threat information between and among government and private sector partners. It will do this with appropriate privacy protections, as well as with the sort of immunity from lawsuits that will genuinely incent sharing of cyber threat information that will help our nation get ahead of the challenge.
As my colleague, John Marinho, CTIA’s Vice President for Technology and Cybersecurity, mentioned in a recent post, the silver bullet here really is a partnership. A top-down regulatory approach will inevitably take on an adversarial nature, while a voluntary partnership holds the promise of true collaboration and cooperation. And what’s more, the framework contained in CISPA can be implemented without expanding the scope of the regulatory regime or an expenditure of all too scarce federal resources.
Enactment of H.R. 3523 will help promote greater cybersecurity by permitting the private sector to better leverage its own cyber defense efforts in a coordinated fashion with government entities through information sharing to protect the nation’s systems, networks and consumers. Additionally, by helping facilitate the creation of a more robust cybersecurity marketplace, the bill will lead to expanded research, service offerings and more jobs for cybersecurity experts. Those are things our nation and our economy can surely use.
2 Responses to “Reiterating CTIA’s Support for CISPA” Leave a reply ›
Unfortunately the way it is worded leaves it wide open for abuse. I basically opens the door for total loss of any presumption of privacy for individuals with no legal recourse.
I'm for the general purposes stated above, but the bill needs to be rewritten to insure individual rights of privacy. As written this bill will allow ANY government or corporation entity that has contact with anything an individual posts OR EVEN SENDS to be mined for 'data' to be used for their purposes or sold.
My ISP should not be able to datamine my private emails and sell that info. That would be 100% legal under CISPA. Just because it's 'not moral' does not mean it will not be done if allowed. Too much of that happens without CISPA!
"Why does the wireless industry support CISPA?" I imagine "the wireless industry" is comprised of individuals with the same hopes, fears, and cell phones as everyone else. All too many times telecommunications firms have been duped or coerced into violating constitutional protections, under the murky guise of "national security."
Hogwash. Better for the whole telecommunications system to come crashing down around us than to live in 1984. Shame on CTIA for jumping on board this misguided train!