[IP] Weekly column: The Specter-Leahy bill's Net crackdown [fs]
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From: Declan McCullagh <declan@xxxxxxxx>
Date: July 4, 2005 11:11:01 PM EDT
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Subject: [Politech] Weekly column: The Specter-Leahy bill's Net
crackdown [fs]
http://news.com.com/The+coming+Web+security+woes/
2010-1071_3-5772012.html
The coming Web security woes
July 4, 2005, 6:00 AM PT
By Declan McCullagh
Our esteemed leaders in the U.S. Congress are vowing to enact new
laws targeting data thieves, backup-tape burglars and other
information-age miscreants.
We should be worried.
Any reasonable person, of course, should agree that such thefts must
be punished and data warehouses should let us know if our information
falls into the hands of criminals.
But a bill announced last week by Sens. Arlen Specter, R-Penn., and
Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., goes far beyond reasonable data security
precautions. It amounts to a crackdown on individuals, bloggers and
legitimate e-mail list moderators.
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