[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 57 (Wednesday, April 24, 2013)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E525]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             CYBER INTELLIGENCE SHARING AND PROTECTION ACT

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                               speech of

                            HON. BARBARA LEE

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, April 17, 2013

       The House in Committee of the Whole House on the state of 
     the Union had under consideration the bill (H.R. 624) to 
     provide for the sharing of certain cyber threat intelligence 
     and cyber threat information between the intelligence 
     community and cybersecurity entities, and for other purposes.

  Ms. LEE of California. Madam Chair, I am voting ``no'' against the 
Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA). H.R. 624 
endangers privacy and allows personal information to be shared by 
private companies without adequate safeguards to protect sensitive and 
highly personal information. While it is important that we build up our 
nation's defenses against the modern dangers of cyberattacks, we cannot 
abandon our central values of freedom and independence in the course of 
doing so. I am prepared to consider an alternate version of CISPA 
wherein civil liberties are robustly protected. This bill provides no 
real solutions that adequately uphold an American's right to privacy, 
and that is why I am voting against it.

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