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April 14, 2012 04:14 am GMT

Facebook Explains Why Its Supporting Congress CISPA Cybersecurity Bill

Screen shot 2012-04-13 at 4.56.05 PMFacebook today explained why it has taken a positive stance on the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or "CISPA", bill currently under consideration in the United States Congress. The social networking company is one of a group of tech companies that have announced support for CISPA -- Microsoft, Oracle, Intel, IBM, and Symantec are also among its backers.In a post today on the official blog for Facebook's Washington D.C. office, the company's U.S. public policy VP Joel Kaplan wrote that Facebook is supporting CISPA in part because it would not ask Facebook to share any more of its own user data than is currently required.

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