Senate working on counterpart to CISPA cybersecurity bill

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is working on legislation that would encourage companies and the government to share information about cyberattacks.

Chairman Feinstein said she has prepared a draft bill and plans to move it forward. The legislation would be the Senate's counterpart to the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, known as CISPA, which cleared the House in April. CISPA would remove legal barriers that prevent companies from sharing information with each other and the government about cyberattacks. It would also allow the government to share more information with the private sector. But privacy advocates fear that CISPA would give the National Security Agency access to a vast new trove of private information.