Stanford CIS

Professors' Letter in Opposition to the "Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act" (S. 754)

By David Levine on

Today, 21 cyberlaw and/or cybersecurity professors and researchers joined a letter calling for the Senate to reject the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act ("CISA"). Endorsing the concerns raised in an April 2015 technologists' letter, the signatories identify the fundamental problem with CISA, namely, that it will achieve little to address the real cybersecurity challenges facing US industry. Moreover, the letter points out three primary CISA downsides, specifically, that it will

As a classic "let's do something" law, the signatories urge the Senate to reject CISA. Questions or comments can be addressed to the letter's author, CIS Affiliate Scholar David S. Levine, at dsl2@princeton.edu.