The Obama administration has issued a policy statement that says businesses sharing cyberthreat info with one another are not violating antitrust laws. The statement is aimed to ease concerns among businesses that they could be sued. The White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Michael Daniel says many companies already share cyberthreat information. The new policy reinforces a 2000 Justice Department analysis involving the Electric Power Research Institute, which concluded that as long as the information exchanged was limited to physical and cybersecurity issues, those communications didn’t present any threat to competition.”]
Source: https://www.govinfosecurity.com/feds-ok-businesses-to-share-cyberthreat-info-a-6741