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Cybersecurity: Selected Legal Issues – CRS

Someone has leaked a March 14, 2012, Congressional Research Service report entitled Cybersecurity: Selected Legal Issues. (Such leaks are a daily occurrence and likely done by a member of Congress, but the institution as a whole has never authorized the routine release of CRS reports to the taxpayers.) Topics include:

Legal Issues Related to Protecting Critical Infrastructure

Deference to Agency Decisions

Availability of Judicial Review

Questions of Fact

Interpretations of Law

Liability Concerns

Proprietary and Confidential Business Information

Legislation in the 112th Congress

H.R. 3674, the PRECISE Act of 2011

S. 2105, the Cybersecurity Act of 2012

Legal Issues Related to the Protection of Federal Networks

EINSTEIN Overview

EINSTEIN and the Fourth Amendment

Monitoring Communications from Federal Employees

Monitoring Communications from Private Persons to Federal Employees

Alternative to Traditional Warrant Requirement

Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight

Legislation in the 112th Congress

S. 2105, the Cybersecurity Act of 2012

Legal Issues Related to Sharing Cybersecurity Threat Information

Electronic Communications Privacy Act

Antitrust Law

Liability for Information Sharing

Protection of Proprietary or Confidential Business Information

Legislation in the 112th Congress

H.R. 3523, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011, As Ordered Reported

H.R. 3674, PRECISE Act

S. 2102, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2012

S. 2105, the Cybersecurity Act of 2012

S. 2151, the SECURE IT Act

Preemption

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