Forgive my ignorance but can I get a clarification on what specific parts of the bill will be damaging to privacy? From what I've read so far of the bill it will permit government organizations with classified intelligence about a possible threat to tell those that might be attacked without going through a lengthy declassification process. While that is certainly valuable, I gather there are other provisions that allow for sharing of user data without consent by those under threat?
EDIT: Seeing now that the measure does not require participants to remove user data, but it doesn't prohibit that, correct?
EDIT2: The CISPA Myths vs. Facts and the EFF articles are informative. Regardless, I think it is important to note that because of classification this information may not have been able to be communicated to organizations prior to something like this bill being in place. I would highly recommend encapsulating each constructive measure in its own bill (and I favor that for all legislative endeavors) however that may not work given the difficulty of the process these days.
EDIT: Seeing now that the measure does not require participants to remove user data, but it doesn't prohibit that, correct?
EDIT2: The CISPA Myths vs. Facts and the EFF articles are informative. Regardless, I think it is important to note that because of classification this information may not have been able to be communicated to organizations prior to something like this bill being in place. I would highly recommend encapsulating each constructive measure in its own bill (and I favor that for all legislative endeavors) however that may not work given the difficulty of the process these days.