The White House hasn't actually issued a veto threat over the current House efforts to revive last year's disastrous cybersecurity bill, CISPA, but it's
all but done so.
The Obama administration issued a statement Thursday that indicated it's not likely to support 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.
The pushback from privacy organizations, the White House, and tech corporations has resulted in
some modifications in the bill that will go to the House floor next week. But not enough to satisfy the White House or privacy experts. For example, the bill still would allow information about us, regular Americans, to be shared with the National Security Agency. There's still no requirement that any personally identifiable information about us that is shared between companies and the government is stripped out.
That means that it's still unacceptable, and is unlikely to get any better with floor amendments next week, since that's not how the Republican House works. President Obama better get his veto threat language brushed off, because he's probably going to need it.
Email your member of Congress and tell them to scrap this CISPA bill.