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"Today Rep.\u00A0Adam Schiff of California introduced an amendment to CISPA for a second time. The amendment, which requires that personally identifying information be removed with &amp;quot;reasonable efforts&amp;quot; when not pertinent to a threat, has been filed ahead of the House Committee on Rules taking up\u00A0CISPA later today.\r\n\r\nRep. Schiff voted against the bill in committee.\r\n\r\nThe failure of efforts to require the stripping of personally identifying information from CISPA in committee led to chiding from some in Congress. A group of four House Democrats stated the following, after CISPA left committee on a vote of 18 to 2:\r\nWhile the Committee did adopt meaningful improvements that are helpful, we are disappointed that the Committee rejected a proposed amendment that would have required private sector entities to make \u201Creasonable efforts\u201D to remove Personally Identifiable Information (PII) unrelated to the cybersecurity threat [in question].\r\nHappily, have another crack at the pinata.\r\n\r\nFor reference, here is the simply worded, and imminently grokable Schiff amendment:\r\nREMOVAL OF INFORMATION IDENTIFYING SPECIFIC PERSONS. \u2014 Each cybersecurity provider or self-protected entity sharing cyber threat information under this paragraph shall, prior to sharing such information, make reasonable efforts (which may make use of automated processes) to remove from such cyber threat information any information that can be used to identify a specific person unrelated to a cyber threat.\r\nKeep in mind that this the same language that failed in committee. Therefore, its chance of passage in the full House isn't clear. Still, it's an amendment that should be passed.\r\n\r\nThe White House has\u00A0publicly\u00A0nicked CISPA's latest form as insufficiently reformed with regards to privacy. The ACLU has made similar complaints, as have privacy advocates and some large technology companies.\r\n\r\nWhen CISPA is vote on, we'll bring you the tally.\r\n\r\nTop Image Credit:\u00A0ttarasiuk"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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