Obama Administration: CISPA bill must do more to protect privacy

The Obama Administration indicated it's not likely to support the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2013 (CISPA), a cybersecurity bill approved by the U.S. House Intelligence Committee this week.

While stopping short of an outright veto threat that many privacy activists may have wanted, the statement made clear that the Administration does not believe the bill in its current form does enough to safeguard personal information. "We continue to believe that information sharing improvements are essential to effective legislation, but they must include privacy and civil liberties protections, reinforce the roles of civilian and intelligence agencies, and include targeted liability protections," Caitlin Hayden, a National Security Council spokeswoman, said in a statement. "We believe the adopted committee amendments reflect a good-faith effort to incorporate some of the Administration's important substantive concerns, but we do not believe these changes have addressed some outstanding fundamental priorities."