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There is immunity for sharing information "in good faith" under CISPA. CISPA is not a blanket authorization to share data.

If an ISP suffers a breach and coughs up huge amounts of PII that they handled negligently, they are absolutely still liable after CISPA becomes a law.

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I did mean within the context of security and handing it over to authorities without due process, but it can easily extend to contradict your proposed scenario. If they claim that said negligence was even tangentially related to some other good faith effort to facilitate anything security related, they get a pass.

Keep dreaming ...

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