Rep Schiff Tweaks Personal Info-Sharing Amendment to CISPA

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) has amended a proposed amendment to the Cyber Information Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) to make it clear that industry can use automated processes to remove personally identifiable information prior to sharing cyberthreat info with each other and government. That came in submitting the amendment to the Rules Committee, which is setting the rules for House floor debate April 17 and 18 on CISPA. Schiff tried unsuccessfully to get the amendment adopted in markup of the bill last year, which is why he tweaked the amendment to clarify that the information could still be shared in real time via automatic processes. Republicans have been concerned that the requirement of removing PII before sharing could slow sharing when time is of the essence. Rep Schiff was one of a quartet of Democratic legislators who said that without that and other changes to the Republican-backed bill, they could not support it.