Sometimes you find the same abbreviations in the same field. Take CISPA as an example.
- CISPA is the name of the competence centre „Center for IT-Security, Privacy and Accountability“ at University of Saarbrücken.
- CISPA is also the name of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, a proposed law in the United States which would allow for the sharing of Internet traffic information between the government and companies.
CISPA – the competence centre – submitted the application for government funding before the introduction of CISPA – the law -, so it looks like the competence centre came up with the name first. However, there are groups lobbying against the law, and some weeks ago I noticed a banner on the Google search engine: „help defeat CISPA“. Bad luck for the competence centre, I guess…
