Rep. Mike Rogers (R., Mich.), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and one of the authors of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) (HR 624) that passed the House earlier this year, said Oct. 23 that he continued to remain hopeful that the bill could become law by the end of this year, even as he admitted that chances for its passage have been impacted by this year's leaks of U.S. intelligence gathering methods by a former National Security Agency contract worker. Speaking at an event sponsored by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Rep. Rogers said that "the recent round of leaks ... has damaged the perception of how we move forward on an information-sharing bill." CISPA would pave the way for greater sharing of cyber threat data between private-sector entities and the federal government by, among other things, creating liability protections for private parties who share threat data.
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