The House passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing and Protection Act yesterday evening largely along party lines. The White House has announced that presidential advisers oppose the bill, which clears legal and liability hurdles for private companies to share sensitive information with one another and the government, because in their view it doesn't do enough to protect personally identifiable information.

Critics, such as Techdirt's Mike Masnick, wrote that some last-minute amendments to the legislation actually made it a more troublesome bill for personal privacy and individual rights. Demand Progress is now already targeting the Senate with its advocacy against the legislation. Earlier, Susan Crawford wrote in a Bloomberg op-ed that the legislation was enabling an Internet arms race.

The Washington Post looks at the increased role that Twitter has played in the election campaign:

Sometimes, the way messages spread can surprise even those who spread them. For instance, when The Washington Post reported on April 5 that Romney was taking advantage of a rule exception that allowed him to avoid disclosing the nature and extent of his financial holdings, the Obama campaign quickly came up with the hashtag #whatsromneyhiding. It almost instantly shot to the top of the worldwide "trending topics" list, Hogan said. The Romney campaign's Moffatt says that a few hours after something gets going on Twitter, the campaign will next turn to Facebook, to see how it is permeating in the larger universe of public opinion. And by the next day, Google search provides a retrospective of how the whole thing played.

In the Bradley Manning case, the judge emphasized to the prosecution that they have to prove Manning knew he was helping the enemy or face the dismissal of their most serious charge.

The Federal Trade Commission is engaging a high-profile outside attorney in its anti-trust investigation into whether Google favored its own properties in search results.

Google has responded to Federal Communications Commission allegations that it impeded the investigation into why the company's Street View cars collected information from unprotected wifi networks as they passed by.

A donor to Senator Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) has apologized for offering an internship at the senator's office as part of a benefit auction. The donor had planned to check with Pryor first, the Associated Press reports, but the prize went up on the Internet too quickly — and was quickly snatched up by "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis, who made it part of a reward package for a new TV contest.

The Sikh Coalition, a civil rights group, is developing an application to bring real-time reporting of racial profiling complaints to TSA checkpoints.

Gawker unveiled a new commenting system that includes "Burners", throwaway pseudonyms stored in Gawker's system in a way designed to protect the commenter's anonymity.

George Zimmerman raised $200,000 in web donations before his website was shut down, the AP reported. In New York City, a website is seeking donations to help pay the $2 million bail of a woman accused of "moonlighting" for 15 years as a multimillion-dollar Manhattan madam, the AP reported.

Officials in the Massachusetts town of Swampscott are investigating who hacked the Town Hall phone system and conducted $20,000 in long-distance calls to the United Kingdom and the Philippines.

NATO's cyberwarfare unit has registered up to 30 cyberattacks a day, Der Spiegel reports.

A secure communications channel between the U.S. and Russia aimed at defusing potential nuclear conflicts could be expanded to include cybserspace conflicts.

A European data protection supervisor said in a speech that technology companies should "innovate" when it comes to consumer privacy. “When data have been published or have been shared and it is within your power to get them back, you have to make reasonable effort to get the spirit back in the bottle,” he said, according to the New York Times.

Germany has not met a deadline to comply with European data retention law guidelines and could face legal action.

Britain's Digital Economy Act, which would involve letters to suspected illegal downloaders and potential disconnections, won't be enforced until at least 2014.

In India, a video circulating on social media that appears to show congressional spokesman Abhishek Manu Singvi having sex in his office has led to his resignation. A Delhi High Court injunction on April 13 had banned television stations from broadcasting the video.

Philippine government websites continue to be under attack from Chinese hackers over a regional dispute on the South China Sea.

A positive Vogue profile of Asma al-Assad, wife of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, from February 2011, has been removed from the magazine's website.